Geographic distribution: Scinax exiguus

KATYUSCIA ARAUJO VIEIRA

HERPETOLOGICAL REVIEW

Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR)

Lugar: Kansas; Año: 2016 vol. 47 p. 624 - 624

0018-084X

SCINAX EXIGUUS (Gran Sabana Snouted Treefrog). BRAZIL:RORAIMA: Municipality of Boa Vista: Estação Ecológica Maracá:Lateral aterro trail (3.3698°N, 61.4418°W, WGS 84). 21 June 2011.Miguel T. Rodrigues, M. Teixeira Jr., R. Recoder, A. Camacho, S. M.Sousa, J. Cassimiro, A. Fouquet, and C. M. Carvalho. Verified byJulián Faivovich. Herpetological collection of Museu de Zoologiada Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (MZUSP 157407).Adult male specimen.Municipal ity of Paraca íma : Área BV8 (4.4846°N, 61.1545°W;WGS 84). 30 May 2011. Miguel T. Rodrigues, M. Teixeira Jr., R.Recoder, A. Camacho, S. M. Sousa, J. Cassimiro, A. Fouquet, andC. M. Carvalho. Verified by Julián Faivovich. MZUSP 157397?157403. All adult male specimens.Municipal ity of Tepequém: Avião caído trail (3.766283°N,61.699083°W; WGS 84). 1 June 2011. Miguel T. Rodrigues, M.Teixeira Jr., R. Recoder, A. Camacho, S. M. Sousa, J. Cassimiro, A.Fouquet, and C. M. Carvalho. Verified by Julián Faivovich. MZUSP157404, 157405. Two adult males. An additional specimen(MZUSP 157406; adult male) was collected on 2 June 2011 ca. 2.7km WNW from the Avião caído collection site.This species is previously known from Northern part of theGran Sabana (drainage of the Río Caroní), Estado de Bolívar,Venezuela, at elev. of 1210?1350 m (Duellman 1986. Copeia1986:864?870; Gorzula and Señaris 1999. Scient. Guaianae 8:41).First country records, the northernmost locality at municipalityof Paracaíma is ca. 159 km SSE from the type locality: Km 144on the El Dorado-Santa Elena de Uairén Road in the GranSabana (5.88333°N, 61.38333°W), Estado de Bolívar, Venezuela(Duellman 1986, op. cit.), and 48 km SSW from the southernmostrecord for the species for Estado de Bolívar, Venezuela: Mapaurí,savannas (Gorzula and Señaris 1999, op. cit.). The locality atmunicipality Boa Vista is the southernmost known record for thespecies in Brazil, extending known range ca. 280 km S from thetype locality in the Gran Sabana, Estado de Bolívar, Venezuela(Duellman 1986, op. cit.).