Scinax tymbamirim

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Scinax tymbamirim
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Scinax
Species:
S. tymbamirim
Binomial name
Scinax tymbamirim
Nunes, Kwet, and Pombal, 2012
Synonyms [1]
  • Hyla fuscomarginata non A. Lutz, 1925
  • Hyla altera Lutz, 1973
  • Hyla rubra altera Braun and Braun, 1980
  • Scinax spec. nov. Kwet and Di-Bernardo, 1999
  • Scinax sp. Kwet, 2001
  • Scinax cf. alter Rocha et al., 2008
  • Scinax sp. aff. alter Kwet et al., 2010
  • Scinax sp. II (aff. alter, small form) Kwet and Márquez 2010

Scinax tymbamirim is a frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to Brazil. [2] [3] [1]

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Appearance

The adult male frog is 20.6 to 27.4 mm long in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 22.3 to 31.2 mm. [1]

This frog is brown or orange-brown in color on the dorsum. It has interrupted white stripes down its sides. There is a five-sided intraocular mark, lined with yellow. There are dark brown bars across all the front and hind legs. Its ventrum is beige in color. This frog has vomerine teeth in its jaw. It has disks on its toes for climbing. [1]

Home

This frog lives in coastal lowlands up to hills and highlands 1000 meters above sea level. [2]

Name

The scientific name of this frog comes from the Tupí-guarani language. Tymba means "animal" and mirim means "small." The scientists named this frog "small animal" because it is smaller that Scinax alter . [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Nunes I; Kwet A; Pombal Jr JP (2012). "Taxonomic revision of the Scinax alter species complex (Anura: Hylidae)" (PDF). Copeia. 2012 (3): 554–569. doi:10.1643/CH-11-088. S2CID   85937435 . Retrieved May 26, 2022.
  2. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. "Scinax tymbamirim Nunes, Kwet, and Pombal, 2012". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved May 26, 2022.
  3. "Scinax tymbamirim". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved May 26, 2022.