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Scinax flavoguttatus (Lutz and Lutz, 1939)

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

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Hyla flavoguttata Lutz and Lutz, 1939, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 11: 75. Holotype: AL-MNRJ 2090, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 57. Type locality: "Serra da Bocaina, at the limits of the States of S. Paulo and Rio [de Janeiro]", Brazil. Rendered as "Fazenda do Bonito, Serra da Bocaina, São José do Barreiro, São Paulo", Brazil, by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 50.

Hyla strigilata flavoguttata — Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 156.

Ololygon flavoguttata — Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 392.

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

Scinax flavoguttatus — Köhler and Böhme, 1996, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 23: 139.

English Names

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

Distribution

Coastal range in Brazil from Espírito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Comment

See account by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 277-278. Peixoto and Weygoldt, 1987, Senckenb. Biol., 68: 1-9, compared Scinax flavoguttatus with Scinax heyeri. Placed in the Scinax catharinae group by Pombal, Haddad, and Kasahara, 1995, J. Herpetol., 29: 1-6, and Pombal and Bastos, 1996, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 371: 1-11. In the Scinax catharinae clade, Scinax catharinae group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 95. Cruz, Feio, and Caramaschi, 2009, Anf. Ibitipoca: 100-101, provided photographs and a brief account for Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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