The Jamaican laughing frog (''Osteopilus ocellatus'') is a species of frog 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 s ...

. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to Jamaica. Other common names include Savanna-la-Mar treefrog.''Osteopilus ocellatus''.
Amphibian Species of the World 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. This is a common species in most parts of Jamaica, where it occurs in a variety of habitat types, including developed but rural areas. It is associated with

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as It sometimes lays its eggs inside these plants and the tadpoles develop there. It does this in regions of Jamaica where the porous limestone substrate prevents reliable above-ground water storage. On other parts of the island the frog will brood in streams or pools of water.

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studies determined that the binomial names ''Rana ocellata'' and ''Osteopilus brunneus'' belong to this species as

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, and distinguished this taxon from the mainly South American species '' Leptodactylus latrans''.

References

Osteopilus Endemic fauna of Jamaica Amphibians of Jamaica Amphibians described in 1851 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Hylidae-stub