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Scinax ictericus Duellman and Wiens, 1993

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

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Scinax icterica Duellman and Wiens, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 153: 19. Holotype: KU 205349, by original designation. Type locality: "Cuzco Amazónico (12° 35′ S, 69° 05′ W, 200 m), 15 km east-northeast of Puerto Maldonado, Provincia Tambopata, Departamento Madre de Dios, Peru".

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

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Elevations of less than 300 m in the drainages of the Río Purús and Río Madre de Dios in southern Peru.

Comment

In the Scinax ruber group according to the original publication. The Scinax ruber group rejected as nonmonophyletic by Faivovich, 2002, Cladistics, 18: 367-393. In the Scinax ruber clade of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 96. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia.

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