Scinax hayii (Barbour, 1909)

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

Hyla hayii Barbour, 1909, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 4: 51. Holotype: MCZ 2513, by original designation and according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 278. Type locality: "Petropolis, [Rio de Janeiro,] Brazil".

Ololygon hayiFouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 392. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Serra do Mar from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina in southeastern Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

 Pombal, Bastos, and Haddad, 1995, Naturalia, São Paulo, 20: 213–225, reported on the advertisement call. In the Scinax ruber clade of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 96. See account by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 278-279. Haddad and Sazima, 1992, in Morellato (ed.), Hist. Nat. Serra do Japi: 194, suggested that more than one species existed under this binominal. Magrini, Carvalho-e-Silva, Béda, and Giaretta, 2011, Zootaxa, 3066: 37-51, reported on the advertisement call, as did Santos and Martins, 2017, Zootaxa, 4232: 582–585. Santos, Silva, and Martins, 2021, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 19: 95–101, reported on it advertisement call in comparison with Scinax dolloi and Scinax pererecaManzano, Takeno, and Sawaya, 2022, Zootaxa, 5178: 453–472, reported on the advertisement call. In the Scinax granulatus 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): 104 (see comment under Hylinae).  

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