Boana pugnax (Schmidt 1857)

Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) 13 (1), pp. 1-198 : 65

Boana pugnax (Schmidt 1857)

Holotype: KM 1009 .

Type locality: “ Chiriquí, Flusse unneit Bocca (sic!) del Toro.” Köhler (2011) is wrong stating the type locality as “ Neugranada.”

Distribution: Regions 1, 3, 6. Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. In Venezuela, widely distributed in open lowlands of Maracaibo Lake Basin and Los Llanos Region ( Escalona et al. 2017).

Remarks: In Boana faber species group ( Faivovich et al. 2005). Many specimens in the Venezuelan collections erroneously identified as Hyla or Hypsiboas crepitans (FRR and CBA, personal observation: now Boana xerophylla ); Escalona et al. (2017) distinguished among B. pugnax and B. xerophylla in four Venezuelan museums, expanding the previous known localities.

Selected references: La Marca (1996a); Chacón (2001); Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga (2001); Tárano (2010); Mendoza (2014); Infante-Rivero and Velozo (2015); Escalona et al. (2017).