Scarthyla Duellman, 1988

FAIVOVICH, JULIÁN, HADDAD, CÉLIO F. B., GARCIA, PAULO C. A., FROST, DARREL R., CAMPBELL, JONATHAN A. & WHEELER, WARD C., 2005, Systematic Review Of The Frog Family Hylidae, With Special Reference To Hylinae: Phylogenetic Analysis And Taxonomic Revision, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (294), pp. 1-240 : 94

Scarthyla Duellman and de Sa´, 1988

TYPE SPECIES: Scarthyla ostinodactyla (5 Hyla goinorum Bokermann, 1962 ), by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS: Molecular autapomorphies include 227 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial protein and ribosomal genes. See appendix 5 for a complete list of these molecular autapomorphies. Apparent morphological autapomorphies include the ability of its tadpoles to propel themselves out of the water, elongated tadpoles (Duellman and Wiens, 1992) and the presence of a labial arm on the oral disc (McDiarmid and Altig, 1990).

COMMENTS: The oral structure known as the labial arm has also been reported for the Scinax rostratus group (McDiarmid and Altig, 1990; Faivovich, 2002) and for four oth­ er species of Scinax (Heyer et al., 1990; Alves and Carvalho e Silva, 2002; Alves et al., 2004). Suarez Mayorga and Lynch (2001b) recently reported a similar structure in the larvae of Sphaenorhynchus dorisae , adding that as yet unpublished studies suggest that the structures present in Scinax , Scarthyla , and Sphaenorhynchus are not homologs.

CONTENTS: Monotypic. Scarthyla goinorum (Bokermann, 1962)