Boana pugnax ( Schmidt, 1857 )

Ovalle-Pacheco, Andrés, Camacho-Rozo, Claudia & Arroyo, Sandy, 2019, Amphibians from Serrania de Las Quinchas, in the mid-Magdalena river valley, Colombia, Check List 15 (3), pp. 387-404 : 396

Boana pugnax ( Schmidt, 1857)

Hyla pugnax Schmidt, 1857: 11 .

Hypsiboas pugnax — Cope 1867: 148.

Boana pugnax — Dubois 2017: 28

One female was recorded with SVL = 73.3 mm. It is a tree frog of large size; pupils bluish, pigmentation in the anterior half of palpebral membrane, dorsum is light brown with some darker brown markings; hindlimbs with vertical dark brown bars; darker and thicker bars on the pleural region. This species was recorded in the Station 5, on tree branches on the edge of ponds. It is distributed from eastern Panamá to Venezuela, and in Colombia, it is distributed in the Caribbean, the Cauca and Magdalena river valleys, and the eastern savannas, from sea level up to 500 m ( Acosta-Galvis 2012a).