Scinax elaeochroa (Cope, 1875)

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

Hyla elaeochroa Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 105. Syntypes: USNM 30688-90 (3 specimens); USNM 30689 designated lectotype by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 53. Type locality: "east foot of mountains near Sipurio," Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia Limón, Costa Rica. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 108, commented on the type locality. Species name is a noun in apposition meaning olive skin. 

Hyla quinquevittata Cope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 273. Holotype: USNM 14187 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 58. Type locality: "Nicaragua". Synonymy by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 859.

Hyla dulcensis Taylor, 1958, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 39: 37. Holotype: KU 32168, by original designation. Type locality: "Golfito, [Cantón de Golfito,] Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 92, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Duellman, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 270, although .

Ololygon elaeochroaFouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 392.

Scinax elaeochroaDuellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 16, 21.

Scinax elaeochrousKöhler and Böhme, 1996, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 23: 139. Treatment of the species name as an adjective. 

English Names

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

Olive Snouted Treefrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 113). 

Distribution

Caribbean lowlands from Nicaragua to western Panama; Pacific lowlands of Golfo Dulce region in Costa Rica and Panama, below 700 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia

Comment

For discussion see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 188–193, and Savage and Heyer, 1969, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 16: 1–127. In the Scinax ruber clade, unassigned to group, of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 97. The species name is a noun in apposition and does not change endings in combination with a masculine generic name. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species (as Hyla elaeochroa) in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 345–347. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189–202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 262–264, provided a brief summary of natural history and identification key for the species of Scinax in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species. See discussion and revision by Ron, Duellman, Caminer, and Pazmiño, 2018, PLoS One, 13 (9: e0203169): 1–26, who discussed the systematics, call, and noted that records of Scinax elaeochroa from Nariño province, Colombia, most likely represent Scinax tsachila and that records to the north of there from western Colombia most likely refer to Scinax quinquefasciatus, Scinax tsachila, Scinax caprarius, or an unnamed member of the genus. In the Scinax elaeochroa 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): 94 (see comment under Hylinae). Martínez-Fonseca, Holmes, Sunyer, Westeen, Grundler, Cerda, Fernández-Mena, Loza-Molina, Monagan, Nondorf, Pandelis, and Rabosky, 2024, Check List, 20: 71, provided and discussed a record from Refugio Bartola, Departamento Río San Juan, Nicaragua.

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