Scinax proboscideus (Brongersma, 1933)

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

Hyla proboscidea Brongersma, 1933, Zool. Anz., 103: 267. Holotype: ZMA 5710, by original designation and Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 86. Type locality: "im Lager am oberen Gran Rio", Suriname.

Ololygon proboscideaFouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 393.

Scinax proboscideaDuellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 23.

Scinax proboscideusKöhler and Böhme, 1996, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 23: 139.

English Names

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

Distribution

Interior of the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana); reported from Amapá, Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname

Comment

In the Scinax ruber clade, Scinax rostratus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 96-97. See Duellman, 1972, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 47: 186-187, and Duellman, 1972, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 11: 1-31. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 166-167 provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 182-183. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 416, for brief account and records for Guyana. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. In the Scinax rostratus 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): 76 (see comment under Hylinae). 

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