Scinax nebulosus

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Scinax nebulosus
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Spix's Snouted Treefrog (Scinax nebulosus)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Scinax
Species:
S. nebulosus
Binomial name
Scinax nebulosus
(Spix, 1824)
Synonyms [2]
  • Hyla nebulosa (Spix, 1824)
  • Hyla cynocephala (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
  • Hyla egleri (Lutz, 1968)
  • Ololygon egleri (Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977)
  • Hyla cyanocephala (Duellman, 1977)
  • Ololygon cynocephala (Duellman, 1985)
  • Scinax nebulosa (Duellman and Wiens, 1992)
  • Scinax cynocephala (Duellman and Wiens, 1992)
  • Scinax nebulosus (Köhler and Böhme, 1996)
  • Scinax cynocephalus (Köhler and Böhme, 1996)

The blue-headed snouted tree frog or Spix's snouted tree frog (Scinax nebulosus) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. [2] It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, intermittent freshwater marshes, pastureland, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Amapa, Brazil Scinax nebulosus (10.5852-ejt.2022.836.1919) Figure 8 (cropped).png
Amapá, Brazil

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References

  1. Enrique La Marca; Robert Reynolds; Claudia Azevedo-Ramos (2004). "Scinax nebulosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2004: e.T55981A11390516. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T55981A11390516.en .
  2. 1 2 "Scinax nebulosus (Spix, 1824)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference . American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved April 12, 2022.