Slender-legged tree frogs
Appearance
Slender-legged tree frogs | |
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Osteocephalus taurinus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hylidae |
Subfamily: | Lophyohylinae |
Genus: | Osteocephalus Steindachner, 1862 |
Species | |
See text. |
Osteocephalus is a genus of frogs, the slender-legged tree frogs, in the family Hylidae found in the Guianas, the Amazon Basin, Venezuela, Colombia, southeastern Brazil, and north-eastern Argentina. Males are warty, while females are smooth.
Species
Binomial name and author | Common name |
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O. alboguttatus (Boulenger, 1882) | |
O. buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882) | Buckley's slender-legged tree frog |
O. cabrerai (Cochran and Goin, 1970) | |
O. camufatus Jungfer, Verdade, Faivovich, and Rodrigues, 2016 | |
O. cannatellai Ron, Venegas, Toral, Read, Ortiz, and Manzano, 2012 | |
O. carri (Cochran and Goin, 1970) | |
O. castaneicola Moravec, Aparicio, Guerrero-Reinhard, Calderón, Jungfer, and Gvoždík, 2009 | |
O. deridens Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000 | |
O. duellmani Jungfer, 2011 | |
O. festae (Peracca, 1904) | |
O. fuscifacies Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000 | |
O. helenae (Ruthven, 1919) | |
O. heyeri Lynch, 2002 | |
O. langsdorfii | Ocellated tree frog |
O. leoniae Jungfer and Lehr, 2001 | |
O. leprieurii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) | Cayenne slender-legged tree frog |
O. mimeticus (Melin, 1941) | |
O. mutabor Jungfer and Hödl, 2002 | |
O. oophagus Jungfer and Schiesari, 1995 | |
O. planiceps Cope, 1874 | |
O. subtilis Martins and Cardoso, 1987 | Brazilian slender-legged tree frog |
O. taurinus Steindachner, 1862 | Manaus slender-legged tree frog |
O. verruciger (Werner, 1901) | Ecuador slender-legged tree frog |
O. vilarsi (Melin, 1941) | |
O. yasuni Ron and Pramuk, 1999 |
References
- Jungfer, K.-H., Schiesari, L.C. (1995a): Description of a central Amazonian and Guianan tree frog, genus Osteocephalus (Anura, Hylidae), with oophagous tadpoles. - Alytes, Paris 13(1), pp. [1-13]
- Jungfer, K.-H., Ron, S., Seipp, R., Almendáriz, A. (2000): Two new species of hylid frogs, genus Osteocephalus, from Amazonian Ecuador. - Amphibia-Reptilia 21(3), pp. [327-340]
- Jungfer, K.-H., Hödl, W. (2002): A new species of Osteocephalus from Ecuador and a redescription of O. leprieurii (Duméril & Bibron, 1841) (Anura: Hylidae). - Amphibia-Reptilia 23(1), pp. [21-46]
- 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
- Frost, Darrel R. 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).
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Osteocephalus. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
- eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Osteocephalus at http://www.eol.org.
- ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database Taxon Osteocephalus at https://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
- GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Osteocephalus at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm