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Scinax eurydice (Bokermann, 1968)

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

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Hyla eurydice Bokermann, 1968, J. Herpetol., 1: 29. Holotype: WCAB 31795, by original designation; now MZUSP. Type locality: "'Fazenda Santo Onofre,' 10 km east of Maracás, Bahia, Brazil".

Ololygon eurydice — Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 394.

Scinax eurydice — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 22.

English Names

Maracas Snouted Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 64).

Distribution

Southern Bahia and Minas Gerais through Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, Brazil.

Comment

Placed in the Scinax ruber group by Pombal, Haddad, and Kasahara, 1995, J. Herpetol., 29: 5. 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. Hartmann, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 222, provided the São Paulo record and commented on the distribution. Canelas and Bertoluci, 2007, Iheringia, Zool., 97: 21-26, provided a record for the Serra do Caraça, southern end of the Serra do Espinhaço, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Magrini, Carvalho-e-Silva, Béda, and Giaretta, 2011, Zootaxa, 3066: 37-51, reported on the call.

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