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Last update: 7 September, 2004

A large genus of tropical american hylid frogs containing more than 80 species.

Scinax Wagler, 1830
(Type = Hyla aurata Wied, 1821)
Ololygon Fitzinger, 1843
(Type = Hyla strigilata Spix, 1824)
Garbeana Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926
(Type = Garbeana garbei Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
Scinax acuminatus

Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia.
Scinax agilis

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Scinax albicans

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Scinax alcatraz

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Scinax altae (Dunn, 1933)
Hyla altae Dunn, 1933
Hyla staufferi altae Dunn, 1933
Distribution: Panama.
Scinax alter

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax

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Scinax argyreornatus

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax atratus

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Scinax

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Scinax baumgardneri

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Scinax berthae

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax

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Scinax boesemani

Distribution: French Guiana.
Scinax boulengeri (Cope, 1887)
Hyla boulengeri (Cope, 1887)
Ololygon boulengeri (Cope, 1887)
Scytopis boulengeri Cope, 1887
Distribution: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama.
Scinax

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Scinax caldarum

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Scinax

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Scinax

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Scinax castroviejoi

Distribution: Bolivia.
Scinax catharinae

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax centralis

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Scinax chiquitanus

Distribution: Bolivia.
Scinax crospedospilus

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax cruentommus

Distribution: Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru.
Scinax cuspidatus

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax danae

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Scinax duartei

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax ehrhardti

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Scinax elaeochrous (Cope, 1875)
Hyla dulcensis Taylor, 1958
Hyla elaeochroa Cope, 1875
Hyla quinquevittata Cope, 1886
Ololygon elaeochroa (Cope, 1875)
Scinax elaeochroa (Cope, 1875)
Distribution: Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama.
Scinax eurydice (Bokermann, 1968)
Hyla eurydice Bokermann, 1968
Ololygon eurydice (Bokermann, 1968)
Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax

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Scinax flavoguttatus

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Scinax

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Scinax fuscomarginatus

Distribution: Bolivia.
Scinax fuscovarius

Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay.
Scinax garbei

Distribution: Bolivia.
Scinax granulatus

Distribution: Argentina, Brazil.
Scinax hayii

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Scinax

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Scinax hiemalis

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax humilis

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax ictericus

Distribution: Bolivia.
Scinax jolyi

Distribution: French Guiana.
Scinax

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Scinax kautskyi

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Scinax

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Scinax lindsayi

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Scinax

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Scinax

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Scinax

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Scinax luizotavioi

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Scinax machadoi

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Scinax nasicus (Cope, 1862)
Hyla nasica Cope, 1862
Hyla nigra Cope, 1887
Hyla x-signata nasica Cope, 1862
Hylella anisitsi Méhely, 1904
Ololygon nasica (Cope, 1862)
Ololygon x-signata nasica (Cope, 1862)
Scinax nasica (Cope, 1862)
Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Scinax nebulosus

Distribution: Bolivia, French Guiana.
Scinax obtriangulatus

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Scinax oreites

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Scinax pachycrus

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Scinax parkeri

Distribution: Bolivia.
Scinax

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Scinax perereca

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax perpusillus

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax proboscideus

Distribution: French Guiana.
Scinax quinquefasciatus

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Scinax ranki

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Scinax rizibilis

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax rostratus (Peters, 1863)
Hyla foliamorta Fouquette, 1958
Hyla rostrata Peters, 1863
Ololygon rostrata (Peters, 1863)
Scinax rostrata (Peters, 1863)
Distribution: Colombia, French Guiana, Panama and Venezuela.
Scinax ruber (Laurenti, 1768)
Auletris rubra (Laurenti, 1768)
Calamita ruber (Laurenti, 1768)
Dendrohyas rubra (Laurenti, 1768)
Hyla alleni (Cope, 1870)
Hyla conirostris Peters, 1863
Hyla lateristriga Spix, 1824
Hyla lineomaculata Werner, 1899
Hyla robersimoni Donoso-Barros, 1965
Hyla rubra Laurenti, 1768
Hyla rubra huebneri Melin, 1941
Hyla rubra orientalis Lutz, 1968
Ololygon alleni (Cope, 1870)
Ololygon rubra (Laurenti, 1768)
Scinax alleni (Cope, 1870)
Scinax rubra (Laurenti, 1768)
Scytopis alleni Cope, 1870
Scytopis cryptanthus Cope, 1874
Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, St. Martin, St. Lucia, Surinam, Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela.
Scinax similis

Distribution: Brazil.
Scinax squalirostris

Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil.
Scinax staufferi (Cope, 1865)
Hyla culex Dunn & Emlen, 1932
Hyla eximia staufferi Cope, 1865
Hyla staufferi Cope, 1865
Hyla staufferi staufferi Cope, 1865
Hyliola staufferi (Cope, 1865)
Ololygon staufferi (Cope, 1865)
Distribution: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua.
Scinax

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Scinax sugillatus

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Scinax trachythorax

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Scinax

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Scinax

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Scinax v-signatus

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Scinax wandae

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Scinax x-signatus

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Literature

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Bevier, C.R. 1997. Breeding activity and chorus tenure of two neotropical hylid frogs. Herpetologica, 53: 297-311.

 
 

Blair, W.F. 1960. Mating call as evidence of relations in the Hyla eximia group. Southwest. Nat., 3: 129-135.

 

Bourne, G.R. 1992. Lekking behavior in the neotropical frog Ololygon rubra. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 31: 173-180.

Bourne, G.R. 1993. Proximate costs and benefits of mate acquisition at leks of the frog Ololygon rubra. Anim. Behav., 45: 1051-1059.

 

Campbell, H.W. & S.R. Telford. 1971. Observations on two species of the Hyla rubra group in Panama (Anura: Hylidae). J. Herpetol., 5: 52-55.

 
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Duellman, W.E. 1970. The Hylid Frogs of Middle America. Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 1: 1-753.
 
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Dunn, E.R. 1933. A new Hyla from the Panama Canal Zone. Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 61-64.

Dunn, E.R. & J.T. Emlen, Jr. 1932. Reptiles and amphibians from Honduras. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 84: 21-32.

 

Faivovich, J. 1997. Nuevas notas sobre la osteología de las especies argentinas de Scinax (Anura: Hylidae). Rs. III Congr. Herp., 33.

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Fouquette, M.J., Jr. 1958. A new tree frog, genus Hyla, from the Canal Zone. Herpetologica, 14: 125-128.

Fouquette, M.J., Jr. & A.J. Delahoussaye. 1977. Sperm morphology in the Hyla rubra group (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae), and its bearing on generic status. J. Herpetol., 11: 387-396.

Gascon, C., S.C. Lougheed & J.P. Bogart. 1998. Patterns of Genetic Population Differentiation in Four Species of Amazonian Frogs: A Test of the Riverine Barrier Hypothesis. Biotropica, 30(1): 104-119.
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