Scinax
"Snouted treefrog" redirects here. For the frog found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, see Tarauaca snouted treefrog.
Scinax | |
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Scinax boesemani | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hylidae |
Subfamily: | Hylinae |
Genus: | Scinax Wagler, 1830 |
Species | |
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Scinax is a genus of frogs (snouted treefrogs) in the Hylidae family found in eastern and southern Mexico to Argentina and Uruguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Saint Lucia. These are small to moderate-sized tree frogs, drably colored. Duellman and Wiens resurrected this genus in 1992. The name originates from the Greek word skinos, meaning quick or nimble.
Species
This genus currently has 103 species assigned to it.[1]
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References
- Duellman, W.E. and Wiens, J.J. 1992. The status of the hylid frog genus Ololygon and the recognition of Scinax Wagler, 1830. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Kansas. 151:1-23.
- Duellman, W.E. and Wiens, J.J. 1993. Hylid frogs of the genus Scinax Wagler, 1830, in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Kansas. 153:1-57.
- 1 2 Lacerda, João Victor A.; Peixoto, Oswaldo Luiz & Feio, Renato N. (2012). "A new species of the bromeligenous Scinax perpusillus group (Anura; Hylidae) from Serra do Brigadeiro, State of Minas Gerais, Southeastern Brazil" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3271: 31–42.
- ↑ Leandro de Oliveira Drummond, Délio Baêta & Maria Rita Silvério Pires, 2007: A new species of Scinax (Anura, Hylidae) of the S. ruber clade from Minas. Zootaxa 1612: 45–53
External links
- Frost, Darrel R. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007). Scinax. Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: Apr 29, 2008).
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Scinax. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 29, 2008).
- eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Scinax at http://www.eol.org.
- ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database Taxon Scinax at http://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 29, 2008).
- GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Scinax at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm
- Sazima Network - Papers, Pictures and Blog by Sazima.
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