Scinax similis (Cochran, 1952)
Hyla similis Cochran, 1952, J. Washington Acad. Sci., 42: 50. Holotype: USNM 97317, by original designation. Type locality: "Manguinhos near the city of Rio de Janeiro", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Hyla x-signata similis — Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 145.
Ololygon similis — Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 392.
Scinax similis — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 23.
English Names
Cochran's Snouted Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 64).
Distribution
Coastal region of Rio de Janeiro into Espírito Santo, Brazil; reported from Itapúa, Misiones, Paraguay.
Comment
In the Scinax ruber clade of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 96. Alves and Carvalho-e-Silva, 1999, Rev. Brasil. Zool., 16: 507-512, provided a comparison of larvae of Scinax similis and Scinax ruber. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 60, provided a brief account and photo. Rödder, Guarnirei, and Teixeira, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 489-490, provided the record for Espírito Santo. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 12, provided a Paraguayan locality.
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