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Mato Grosso Snouted Tree Frog
Walter S. Prado, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Frogs & toads

Mato Grosso Snouted Tree Frog

Scinax acuminatus (Cope, 1862)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishMato Grosso Snouted Tree Frog
Dutch—
SpanishRanita hocicuda chaqueña
Chinese—
Sranan Tongotodo (general name for the group)
Scientific nameScinax acuminatus (Cope, 1862)

About this species

Scinax acuminatus is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.

It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and possibly Uruguay.

Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, pastureland, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, ponds, and canals and ditches. It breeds in bodies of water.

It is threatened by eventual habitat loss, but the population is currently fairly stable, as it adapts fairly well to human encroachment and development.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAmphibia
OrderAnura
FamilyHylidae
GenusScinax

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