''Osteocephalus'' is a genus of
frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" '' Triadobatrachus'' is ...
s, the slender-legged tree frogs, in the family
Hylidae
Hylidae is a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as " tree frogs and their allies". However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semiaquatic.
Taxonomy and ...
found in the
Guianas
The Guianas, sometimes called by the Spanish loan-word ''Guayanas'' (''Las Guayanas''), is a region in north-eastern South America which includes the following three territories:
* French Guiana, an overseas department and region of France
* ...
, the
Amazon Basin
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about , or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Boli ...
, Venezuela, Colombia, southeastern Brazil, and north-eastern Argentina. Males are warty, while females are smooth.
Species
There are currently 25 described species in ''Osteocephalus'':
* ''
O. alboguttatus''
* ''
O. buckleyi'' —
Buckley's slender-legged tree frog
* ''
O. cabrerai''
* ''
O. camufatus''
* ''
O. cannatellai''
* ''
O. carri''
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O. castaneicola''
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O. deridens''
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O. duellmani''
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O. festae''
* ''
O. fuscifacies''
* ''
O. helenae''
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O. heyeri''
* ''
O. leoniae''
* ''
O. leprieurii'' —
Cayenne slender-legged tree frog
The Cayenne slender-legged tree frog (''Osteocephalus leprieurii''), also known as the Cayenne spiny-backed frog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in northern South America.
References
amphibians described in 1841
amphib ...
* ''
O. mimeticus''
* ''
O. mutabor''
* ''
O. oophagus''
* ''
O. planiceps''
* ''
O. sangay''
—
Sangay casqued tree frog
''Osteocephalus sangay'', also known as the Sangay casqued tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is found in eastern Ecuador in Morona Santiago province
Morona Santiago () is a province in Ecuador. The province was estab ...
* ''
O. subtilis'' —
Brazilian slender-legged tree frog
The Brazilian slender-legged tree frog (''Osteocephalus subtilis'') is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Brazil and possibly Bolivia
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* ''
O. taurinus'' —
Manaus slender-legged tree frog
* ''
O. verruciger'' —
Ecuador slender-legged tree frog
The Ecuador slender-legged tree frog (''Osteocephalus verruciger'') is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions i ...
* ''
O. vilarsi''
*''
O. yasuni''
References
* (1995a): Description of a central Amazonian and Guianan tree frog, genus Osteocephalus (Anura, Hylidae), with oophagous tadpoles. - ''Alytes, Paris'' 13(1), pp.
-13* (2000): Two new species of hylid frogs, genus Osteocephalus, from Amazonian Ecuador. - ''Amphibia-Reptilia'' 21(3), pp.
27-340* (2002): A new species of Osteocephalus from Ecuador and a redescription of O. leprieurii (Duméril & Bibron, 1841) (Anura: Hylidae). - ''Amphibia-Reptilia'' 23(1), pp.
1-46*Jungfer, K.-H., J. Faivovich, J.M. Padial, S. Castroviejo-Fisher, M. Lyra, B. Von Muller Berneck, P. Iglesias, P.J.R. Kok, R.D. MacCulloch, M.T. Rodrigues, V.K. Verdade, C.P. Torres Gastello, J.C. Chaparro, P.H. Valdujo, S. Reichle, J. Moravec, V. Gvoždík, G. Gagliardi-Urrutia, R. Ernst, I. De la Riva, D.B. Means, A.P. Lima, J.C. Señaris, W.C. Wheeler and C.F.B. Haddad. (2013). Systematics of spiny-backed treefrogs (Hylidae: Osteocephalus) an Amazonian puzzle. ''Zoologica Scripta'' 42: 351–380.
External links
* . 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007)
''Osteocephalus'' Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
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eb application 2008. Berkeley, California
''Osteocephalus'' AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
* taxo
''Osteocephalus''at http://www.eol.org.
* Taxo
''Osteocephalus''at https://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
* Taxo
''Osteocephalus''at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm
Hylidae
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