Scinax ruber (Laurenti 1768)

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 : 87

Scinax ruber (Laurenti 1768)

Neotype: RMNH 15922 B.

Type locality: “ America.” Neotype from Paramaribo, Surinam.

Distribution: Regions 2, 5. Widely distributed through the Guiana Shield Basin (northeastern Brazil, south and eastern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana), Trinidad and Tobago, and St. Lucia in the Lesser Antilles. Introduced in Puerto Rico. In Venezuela, eastern and SE parts, from Península de Paria (type locality of Hyla robersimoni , a synonym) to the northern versant of Sierra de Lema. Not known from the uplands of Gran Sabana.

Remarks: Distribution and specimens of this species historically confused in Venezuela with those of Scinax x-signatus . Fouquet et al. (2007) showed at least six cryptic species could be hidden under that name. All previously mentioned S. ruber from Amazonian Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, as well as Trans-Andean, are representatives of other, undescribed taxa. Since neotype locality is Surinam, Scinax ruber sensu stricto occurs from eastern Venezuela and Trinidad to northeastern Brazil through the Guianas, being a Guianan endemic ( Hoogmoed 1979b). In Scinax ruber clade ( Faivovich et al. 2005). Barrio-Amorós and Ortiz (2015) comment on type material of the synonym Hyla robersimoni Donoso-Barros, 1966 .

Selected references: Daudin (1803); Günther (1858); Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1964a,b, 1967c, 1968g, 1969a); Heatwole et al. (1965); Donoso-Barros (1966); Duellman (1972b, 1979 a, 1986, 1997); Fouquette and Delahoussaye (1977); Hoogmoed and Gorzula (1979); Hoogmoed and Gruber (1983); Gorzula (1985a); Duellman and Wiens (1992); Barrio-Amorós et al. (2004, 2011b); Fouquet et al. (2007); Señaris et al. (2014); Barrio-Amorós and Ortiz (2015).