Hypsiboas pugnax Schmidt, 1857 and Scinax ruber Laurenti, 1768 (Amphibia: Anura): Distribution extension in the Río Cauca Valley, Colombia

Abstract

Scinax ruber and Hypsiboas pugnax are nocturnal and arboreal species, and can be found typically in open areas with human disturbance. Here, we present the first record of S. ruber and H. pugnax from the departments of Valle del Cauca and Cauca, Colombia, and the southernmost record in the Rio Cauca valley.

Unveiling the geographic distribution of Boana pugnax (Schmidt, 1857) (Anura, Hylidae) in Venezuela: new state records, range extension, and potential distribution

“…We generated the species distribution model (SDM) for B. pugnax based on all the locality records from Venezuela obtained from the museums listed above and from literature (La Marca 1996, Mijares-Urrutia and Arends 1999, Chacón-Ortiz et al 2004, Tárano 2010, whereas those from Panama and Colombia were compiled from the Círculo Herpetológico de Panama's webpage (Círculo Herpetológico de Panamá 2017), Batrachia online database (Acosta-Galvis 2017), and literature (Kluge 1979, Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga 2001, Armesto et al 2009, Mendez-Narvaez et al 2014, Guarnizo et al 2015. We did not include the records of GBIF due to difficulty of verifying the identity of specimens on which those records are based and we presumed the occurrence of an important number of misidentifications (see below).…”