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Scinax cruentommus (Duellman, 1972)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Scinax

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Hyla cruentomma Duellman, 1972, Copeia, 1972: 266. Holotype: KU 126587, by original designation. Type locality: "Santa Cecilia on the Río Aguarico, Provincia Napo, Ecuador (0° 02′ N—76° 58′ W), elevation 340 m".

Ololygon cruentoma — Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 393. Misspelling.

Scinax cruentomma — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 21.

Scinax cruentommus — Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 172.

English Names

Manaus Snouted Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63).

Distribution

Amazon Basin in Ecuador and northern Peru (drainages of the Río Napo, Río Marañon, and Río Ucayali); reported from 70-90 km north of Manaus, Brazil; possibly in Amazonian southeastern Colombia.

Comment

In the Scinax ruber group of Pombal, Haddad, and Kasahara, 1995, J. Herpetol., 29: 1-6. The Scinax ruber group rejected as nonmonophyletic by Faivovich, 2002, Cladistics, 18: 367-393. In the Scinax ruber clade, unassigned to group, of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 97. See account by Duellman and Wiens, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 153: 9-12. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 172-173, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana.

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