Amphibians from Serrania de Las Quinchas, in the mid-Magdalena river valley, Colombia
Author
Ovalle-Pacheco, Andrés
Author
Camacho-Rozo, Claudia
Author
Arroyo, Sandy
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/15.3.387
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10.15560/15.3.387
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Scinax rostratus
(
Peters, 1863
)
Hyla rostrata
Peters 1863: 466
.
Scinax rostratus
—
Köhler and Böhme 1996: 139
.
In this study, males SVL =
39.2–40.3 mm
, females SVL =
48.1–52.7 mm
. The most conspicuous characteristic of the species is a brown triangular marking between the eyes of most individuals; yellow or orange posterior surfaces of the thighs, with prominent vertical brown or black bars (
Duellman 2001
). A total of 6 individuals were observed between 260 and
300 m
, on leaves of vegetation in water bodies and grasslands close to wet forest relicts, in Sta- tion 5. The species is distributed from
Panamá
to
Guyana
and
Surinam
, and in
Colombia
, it is present in the inter-Andean valleys, the Chocó biogeographic zone and along the savannas in the north, up to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (
Acosta-Galvis 2019
,
Suárez and Alzate Basto 2014
).