Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation Author Barrio-Amorós, César L. Fundación AndígenA, Apartado Postal 210, Mérida, VENEZUELA & Current address: Doc Frog Expeditions, Uvita de Osa, COSTA RICA cesarlba@yahoo.com Author Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Apartado Postal 1930, Caracas 1010 - A, VENEZUELA & Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Río Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Porto Alegre, RS 90619 - 900, BRAZIL rojas_runjaic@yahoo.com Author Señaris, J. Celsa Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, apartado 20632, Caracas 1020, VENEZUELA celsisenaris@gmail.com text Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 2019 e 180 2019-07-14 13 1 1 198 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.11404264 1525-9153 11404264 Scinax ruber (Laurenti 1768) Neotype : RMNH 15922 B. Type locality: “ America.” Neotype from Paramaribo , Surinam . Distribution: Regions 2, 5. Widely distributed through the Guiana Shield Basin (northeastern Brazil , south and eastern Venezuela , Guyana , Suriname , French Guiana), Trinidad and Tobago , and St. Lucia in the Lesser Antilles. Introduced in Puerto Rico . In Venezuela , eastern and SE parts, from Península de Paria ( type locality of Hyla robersimoni , a synonym) to the northern versant of Sierra de Lema. Not known from the uplands of Gran Sabana. Remarks: Distribution and specimens of this species historically confused in Venezuela with those of Scinax x-signatus . Fouquet et al. (2007) showed at least six cryptic species could be hidden under that name. All previously mentioned S. ruber from Amazonian Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , and Bolivia , as well as Trans-Andean, are representatives of other, undescribed taxa. Since neotype locality is Surinam , Scinax ruber sensu stricto occurs from eastern Venezuela and Trinidad to northeastern Brazil through the Guianas, being a Guianan endemic ( Hoogmoed 1979b ). In Scinax ruber clade ( Faivovich et al. 2005 ). Barrio-Amorós and Ortiz (2015) comment on type material of the synonym Hyla robersimoni Donoso-Barros, 1966 . Selected references: Daudin (1803) ; Günther (1858) ; Ginés (1959) ; Rivero (1961 , 1964a ,b, 1967c, 1968g , 1969a); Heatwole et al. (1965) ; Donoso-Barros (1966) ; Duellman (1972b , 1979 a , 1986, 1997); Fouquette and Delahoussaye (1977) ; Hoogmoed and Gorzula (1979) ; Hoogmoed and Gruber (1983) ; Gorzula (1985a) ; Duellman and Wiens (1992) ; Barrio-Amorós et al. (2004, 2011b); Fouquet et al. (2007); Señaris et al. (2014) ; Barrio-Amorós and Ortiz (2015) .