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Excerpt from Hylid Frogs of the Genus Scinax Wagler, 1830, in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru
We recognize eight species of Scinax in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru. In each of the following accounts, an abbreviated synonymy precedes a diagnosis, in which characters are listed numerically for easy comparison. For the new taxa, the diagnoses are followed by descriptions of adults, larvae, and advertisement calls. References to descriptions of larvae and advertisement calls of previously described species are given in the re marks in those accounts. Notes on life history and ecology, and geographic distributions are presented for all species.
Morphometric data are summarized in Table 1. Most of the characters used in the diagnoses are evident; but the terms regarding snout shape need to be clarified. Four terms are applied to snout shape in dorsal view: bluntly round (fig. 1a), acutely round (fig. 1b), acuminate (fig. 1c), acuminate with ?eshy proboscis (fig. 1d). In profile, the shapes are: bluntly round (fig. 1a), round (fig. 1b), acuminate (fig. 1c), acuminate with ?eshy proboscis (fig. 1d).
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