Boana boans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Llanqui, Irbin B., Y. Salas, Cinthya & Oblitas, Melissa P., 2019, A preliminary checklist of amphibians and reptiles from the vicinity of La Nube Biological Station, Bahuaja-Sonene National Park, Peru, Check List 15 (5), pp. 773-796 : 782

Boana boans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Figure 5A, B

Material examined. MUSA 4922; (13°25′25″S, 069°36′ 36″W), 22.IX.2013.

Identification. A large tree-frog species, SVL 84–118 mm in males and 88–110 mm in females. It can be identified by its large size, small calcars and extensive web- bing on hands and feet. Males present a typical spine on the thumb. Dorsum smooth, tan to brown with faint darker marks, flanks grayish tan with thin dark brown vertical bars. A similar species in neighboring localities is B. geographica , but it differs by having hands and feet <50% webbed, and orange dorsal coloration ( Duellman 1978, 2005, Rodriguez and Duellman 1994).

Distribution. Boana boans is widely distributed in the Amazonian forests in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, French Guiana, Guyana, eastern Panama and Trinidad ( Hoogmoed 1990, de la Riva et al. 2000, Duellman et al. 2016, Frost 2019).