''Osteocephalus'' is a genus of
frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-f ...
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 s ...
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 Bolivi ...
, 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
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O. cabrerai''
* ''
O. camufatus''
* ''
O. cannatellai''
* ''
O. carri''
* ''
O. castaneicola''
* ''
O. deridens''
* ''
O. duellmani''
* ''
O. festae''
* ''
O. fuscifacies''
* ''
O. helenae''
* ''
O. heyeri''
* ''
O. leoniae''
* ''
O. leprieurii'' —
Cayenne slender-legged tree frog
* ''
O. mimeticus''
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O. mutabor''
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O. oophagus''
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O. planiceps''
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O. sangay''
—
Sangay casqued tree frog
* ''
O. subtilis'' —
Brazilian slender-legged tree frog
* ''
O. taurinus'' —
Manaus slender-legged tree frog
The Manaus slender-legged tree frog (''Osteocephalus taurinus'') is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical o ...
* ''
O. verruciger'' —
Ecuador slender-legged tree frog
* ''
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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