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Scinax  Wagler, 1830
Taxonomic Serial No.: 550207

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Garbeana Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926
  
  Common Name(s): Snouted Treefrogs [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassAmphibia  – amphibiens, anfíbio, Amphibians  
                         OrderAnura  – Frogs, perereca, rã, sapo, crapauds, grenouilles, Toads  
                            FamilyHylidae Rafinesque, 1815 – Hylids, New World Tree Frogs, Treefrogs, hylidés, hylidés arboricoles, Hylid Frogs  
                               GenusScinax Wagler, 1830 – Snouted Treefrogs  
    Direct Children:  
                                  Species Scinax acuminatus (Cope, 1862)  
                                  Species Scinax albertinae Ferrão, Moravec, Ferreira, Moraes and Hanken, 2022  
                                  Species Scinax altae (Dunn, 1933)  
                                  Species Scinax alter (Lutz, 1973)  
                                  Species Scinax auratus (Wied-Neuwied, 1821)  
                                  Species Scinax baumgardneri (Rivero, 1961) – Baumgardner's Snouted Treefrog 
                                  Species Scinax blairi (Fouquette and Pyburn, 1972)  
                                  Species Scinax boesemani (Goin, 1966)  
                                  Species Scinax boulengeri (Cope, 1887)  
                                  Species Scinax cabralensis Drummond, Baêta and Pires, 2007  
                                  Species Scinax caldarum (Lutz, 1968)  
                                  Species Scinax caprarius Acosta-Galvis, 2018  
                                  Species Scinax castroviejoi De la Riva, 1993  
                                  Species Scinax chiquitanus (De la Riva, 1990)  
                                  Species Scinax coeruleus (Spix, 1824)  
                                  Species Scinax constrictus Lima, Bastos and Giaretta, 2005  
                                  Species Scinax cretatus Nunes and Pombal, 2011  
                                  Species Scinax crospedospilus (Lutz, 1925)  
                                  Species Scinax cruentomma (Duellman, 1972)  
                                  Species Scinax curicica Pugliese, Pombal and Sazima, 2004  
                                  Species Scinax cuspidatus (Lutz, 1925)  
                                  Species Scinax danae (Duellman, 1986)  
                                  Species Scinax dolloi (Werner, 1903)  
                                  Species Scinax duartei (Lutz, 1951)  
                                  Species Scinax elaeochroa (Cope, 1875)  
                                  Species Scinax eurydice (Bokermann, 1968)  
                                  Species Scinax exiguus (Duellman, 1986)  
                                  Species Scinax funereus (Cope, 1874)  
                                  Species Scinax fuscomarginatus (Lutz, 1925)  
                                  Species Scinax fuscovarius (Lutz, 1925)  
                                  Species Scinax garbei (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)  
                                  Species Scinax granulatus (Peters, 1871)  
                                  Species Scinax haddadorum Araujo-Vieira, Valdujo and Faivovich, 2016  
                                  Species Scinax hayii (Barbour, 1909)  
                                  Species Scinax ictericus Duellman and Wiens, 1993  
                                  Species Scinax imbegue Nunes, Kwet and Pombal, 2012  
                                  Species Scinax iquitorum Moravec, Tuanama, Pérez-Peña and Lehr, 2009  
                                  Species Scinax jolyi Lescure and Marty, 2000  
                                  Species Scinax juncae Nunes and Pombal, 2010  
                                  Species Scinax juruena Ferrão, Hanken, Oda, Campião, Penhacek, Anjos and Rodrigues, 2024  
                                  Species Scinax karenanneae (Pyburn, 1993)  
                                  Species Scinax kennedyi (Pyburn, 1973)  
                                  Species Scinax lindsayi Pyburn, 1992  
                                  Species Scinax madeirae (Bokermann, 1964)  
                                  Species Scinax manriquei Barrio-Amorós, Orellana and Chacón-Ortiz, 2004  
                                  Species Scinax maracaya (Cardoso and Sazima, 1980)  
                                  Species Scinax montivagus Juncá, Napoli, Nunes, Mercês and Abreu, 2015  
                                  Species Scinax nasicus (Cope, 1862)  
                                  Species Scinax nebulosus (Spix, 1824)  
                                  Species Scinax onca Ferrão, Moravec, Fraga, Pinheiro de Almeida, Kaefer and Lima, 2017  
                                  Species Scinax oreites Duellman and Wiens, 1993  
                                  Species Scinax pachycrus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)  
                                  Species Scinax pedromedinae (Henle, 1991)  
                                  Species Scinax perereca Pombal, Haddad and Kasahara, 1995  
                                  Species Scinax proboscideus (Brongersma, 1933)  
                                  Species Scinax pyroinguinis Chávez, Aznaran, García Ayachi and Catenazzi, 2023  
                                  Species Scinax quinquefasciatus (Fowler, 1913)  
                                  Species Scinax ritaleeae Marinho, Faivovich, Haddad and Araujo-Vieira, 2024  
                                  Species Scinax rogerioi Pugliese, Baêta and Pombal, 2009  
                                  Species Scinax rossaferesae Conte, Araujo-Vieira, Crivellari and Berneck, 2016  
                                  Species Scinax rostratus (Peters, 1863)  
                                  Species Scinax ruber (Laurenti, 1768) – Red Snouted Treefrog 
                                  Species Scinax ruberoculatus Ferrão, Fraga, Moravec, Kaefer and Lima, 2018  
                                  Species Scinax rupestris Araujo-Vieira, Brandão and Faria, 2015  
                                  Species Scinax sateremawe Sturaro and Peloso, 2014  
                                  Species Scinax similis (Cochran, 1952)  
                                  Species Scinax squalirostris (Lutz, 1925)  
                                  Species Scinax staufferi (Cope, 1865) – Rana-de árbol de Stauffer 
                                  Species Scinax strussmannae Ferrão, Moravec, Kaefer, Fraga and Lima, 2018  
                                  Species Scinax sugillatus (Duellman, 1973)  
                                  Species Scinax tigrinus Nunes, Carvalho and Pereira, 2010  
                                  Species Scinax tropicalia Novaes-e-Fagundes, Araujo-Vieira, Entiauspe, Roberto, Orrico, Solé, Haddad and Loebmann, 2021  
                                  Species Scinax tsachila Ron, Duellman, Caminer and Pazmiño, 2018  
                                  Species Scinax tymbamirim Nunes, Kwet and Pombal, 2012  
                                  Species Scinax ushiniauae Gagliardi-Urrutia, Araujo-Vieira, Padial, Simões, Faivovich and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2024  
                                  Species Scinax villasboasi Brusquetti, Jansen, Barrio-Amorós, Segalla and Haddad, 2014  
                                  Species Scinax wandae (Pyburn and Fouquette, 1971)  
                                  Species Scinax x-signatus (Spix, 1824)  
       

 References
       
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  Source: Amphibian Species of the World 6.2 2025-09-15, database (version 6.2)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Frost, Darrel R. 2025. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.2 (15 September, 2025). lectronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA   
  Reference for: Scinax   
       
  Source: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference v6, database (version 6.0)  
  Acquired: 2019   
  Notes: Frost, Darrel R. 2019. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6 (12 September, 2019). Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA   
  Reference for: Scinax   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Frost, Darrel R.  
  Publication Date: 1997   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Amphibian Species of the World, A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second edition   
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  Publisher: Electronic manuscript supplied by compiler   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, U.S.A.   
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  Reference for: Scinax   
       

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