First records of Scinax ruberoculatus Ferrão, Fraga, Moravec, Kaefer & Lima, 2018 (Anura, Hylidae) in the state of Amapá, eastern Amazon, Brazil, with comments on its vocalization and distribution

Abstract

We report the first records of Scinax ruberoculatus Ferrão, Fraga, Moravec, Kaefer & Lima, 2018 in the state of Amapá, Brazil. We provide an updated distribution map of this species, comment on its occurrence in French Guiana and Suriname, and provide morphometric and bioacoustic data for a population from the municipality of Porto Grande, Amapá, including the first description of the species’ territorial call. This record from Porto Grande extends the distribution of S. ruberoculatus approximately 1430 km northeast from its type locality and helps to better understand its actual distribution. 

Treefrog Diversity in the Neotropics: Phylogenetic Relationships of Scinaxini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae)

“…Scinax ruberoculatus is known from Amazonas, Amapá and Mato Grosso, Brazil (Ferrão et al, 2018b; Camera et al, 2019; Figueiredo et al, 2021). Our analysis included only samples from Amazonas.…”

“…Duellman (1986: vocalization of S. danae ); Lescure and Marty (2000: natural history and vocalization of Scinax sp. 30, as S. cruentomma ); Ferrão et al (2018b: vocalization and tadpole of S. ruberoculatus ); Figueiredo et al (2021: vocalization of S. ruberoculatus ).…”

“…We complemented our new data with sequences for Scinax available on GenBank (Appendix S1) produced by Carnaval (2002), Salducci et al (2002, 2005), Darst and Cannatella (2004), Faivovich et al (2005, 2010a), Wiens et al (2005, 2010), Fouquet et al (2007a,b), Jansen et al (2011), Bell et al (2012), Brusquetti et al (2014), Guarnizo et al (2015), Klippel et al (2015), Ferrão et al (2016, 2017, 2018a, 2018b, 2022), Nogueira et al (2016), Vences et al (2016), Lyra et al (2017), Lopes et al (2017), Araujo-Vieira et al (2020a), and Vacher et al (2020). The final molecular dataset includes 1,279 terminals of Scinax ; among which 775 were sequenced for this project and 504 were obtained from GenBank.…”