Scinax danae (Duellman, 1986)

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

Ololygon danae Duellman, 1986, Copeia, 1986: 864. Holotype: KU 167073, by original designation. Type locality: "Km 127 on El Dorado-Santa Elena de Uiarén Road, Estado de Bolívar, Venezuela, 1250 m (05° 57′ N, 61° 27′ W)".

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Sierra de Lema at high elevation in southeastern Venezuela (Bolívar); reported from Guanía, eastern Colombia on the Venezuela border; possibly extending into adjacent Guyana. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Venezuela

Comment

In Scinax staufferi group, according to the original publication. See comments by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 40-41, commented on distribution. In the Scinax ruber clade, unassigned to group, of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 97. Señaris, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 180–181, provided a photograph and a brief account for the Parque Nacional de Canaima, Venezuela. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 83, for comments on range, systematics, and literature. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status in the Venezuelan Guayana. Osorno-Muñoz, Gutiérrez-Lamus, and Caicedo-Portilla, 2021, In Oviedo et al., Plan de Manejo Ambiental: 93–105 (not seen by DRF), reported the species from the Ramsar site in Guainía, eastern Colombia. In the Scinax danae group of Araujo-Vieira, Lourenço, Lacerda, Lyra, Blotto, Ron, Baldo, Pereyra, Suárez-Mayorga, Baêta, Ferreira, Barrio-Amorós, Borteiro, Brandão, Brasileiro, Donnelly, Dubeux, Köhler, Kolenc, Leite, Maciel, Nunes, Orrico, Peloso, Pezzuti, Reichle, Rojas-Runjaic, Silva, Sturaro, Langone, Garcia, Rodrigues, Frost, Wheeler, Grant, Pombal, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2023, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 27 (Special Issue): 109 (see comment under Hylinae). 

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