Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae, Scinax cardosoi (Carvalho-e-Silva & Peixoto, 1991): distribution extension and new state record for São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

Specimens of Scinax cardosoi were collected in the vicinity of temporary lentic waterbodies within the Atlantic Rainforest of the Vale do Paraíba region of São Paulo state, Brazil. These record increases the distribution of this species by 236 km from the nearest previous records in Minas Gerais state and 313 km from its type locality in Rio de Janeiro state. Here we report the first record of Scinax cardosoi for the São Paulo state.

Treefrog Diversity in the Neotropics: Phylogenetic Relationships of Scinaxini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae)

“…Distribution . Southeastern Brazil, from Espírito Santo to São Paulo, and Minas Gerais (Carvalho-e-Silva and Peixoto, 1991; Pinto et al, 2009; Linares et al, 2011; Carvalho et al, 2015a; Moroti et al, 2017a).…”

First record of visual displays in Scinax cardosoi (Anura: Hylidae)

“…Two types of visual displays occur in the genus. Limb-lifting is documented for the four species ( ) and leg-kicking only for one species ( Hartmann 2005, Toledo and Haddad 2005, Barros and Feio 2011, Furtado 2017 (Moroti 2017). Despite its range over an enormous area in southeastern Brazil, the records of its populations are disjunct, and there is little information on the ecology and behavior of Here, we describe the visual displays observed in a population of in an Atlantic Forest fragment in southeastern Brazil.…”