Slender-legged tree frog

Slender-legged tree frog
	Osteocephalus taurinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Subfamily:	Lophyohylinae
Genus:	Osteocephalus; Steindachner, 1862
Species
	26, see text.

Osteocephalus is a genus of frogs, commonly called the slender-legged tree frogs, in the family Hylidae. Species in the genus are found in the Guianas, the Amazon Basin, Venezuela, Colombia, southeastern Brazil, and north-eastern Argentina. Males are warty, while females are smooth.

Species

There are 26 described species in Osteocephalus:

O. alboguttatus (Boulenger, 1882)
O. buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882) — Buckley's slender-legged tree frog
O. cabrerai (Cochran & Goin, 1970)
O. camufatus (Jungfer, Verdade, Faivovich & Rodrigues, 2016)
O. cannatellai (Ron, Venegas, Toral, Read, Ortiz & Manzano, 2012)
O. carri (Cochran & Goin, 1970)
O. castaneicola (Moravec, Aparicio, Guerrero-Reinhard, Calderón, Jungfer & Gvoždík, 2009)
O. deridens (Jungfer, Ron, Seipp & Almendáriz, 2000)
O. duellmani (Jungfer, 2011)
O. festae (Peracca, 1904)
O. fuscifacies (Jungfer, Ron, Seipp & Almendáriz, 2000)
O. helenae (Ruthven, 1919)
O. heyeri (Lynch, 2002)
O. leoniae (Jungfer & Lehr, 2001)
O. leprieurii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1841) — Cayenne slender-legged tree frog
O. mimeticus (Melin, 1941)
O. mutabor (Jungfer & Hödl, 2002)
O. oophagus (Jungfer & Schiesari, 1995)
O. planiceps (Cope, 1874)
O. sangay (Chasiluisa, Caminer, Varela-Jaramillo & Ron, 2020) — Sangay casqued tree frog
O. subtilis (Martins & Cardoso, 1987) — Brazilian slender-legged tree frog
O. taurinus (Steindachner, 1862) — Manaus slender-legged tree frog
O. vasquezi (Venegas, García-Ayachi, Toral, Malqui & Ron, 2023)
O. verruciger (Werner, 1901) — Ecuador slender-legged tree frog
O. vilarsi (Melin, 1941)
O. yasuni (Ron & Pramuk, 1999)

References

↑ Chasiluisa, Valeria D.; Caminer, Marcel A.; Varela-Jaramillo, Andrea; Ron, Santiago R. (2020-01-01). "Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of treefrog of the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group (Anura: Hylidae)". Neotropical Biodiversity. 6 (1): 21–36. Bibcode:2020NeBio...6...21C. doi:10.1080/23766808.2020.1729306.
↑ Chasiluisa, Valeria D.; Caminer, Marcel A.; Varela-Jaramillo, Andrea; Ron, Santiago R. (2020-01-01). "Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of treefrog of the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group (Anura: Hylidae)". Neotropical Biodiversity. 6 (1): 21–36. Bibcode:2020NeBio...6...21C. doi:10.1080/23766808.2020.1729306.

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

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[1] Chasiluisa, Valeria D.; Caminer, Marcel A.; Varela-Jaramillo, Andrea; Ron, Santiago R. (2020-01-01). "Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of treefrog of the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group (Anura: Hylidae)". Neotropical Biodiversity. 6 (1): 21–36. Bibcode:2020NeBio...6...21C. doi:10.1080/23766808.2020.1729306.

[2] Chasiluisa, Valeria D.; Caminer, Marcel A.; Varela-Jaramillo, Andrea; Ron, Santiago R. (2020-01-01). "Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of treefrog of the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group (Anura: Hylidae)". Neotropical Biodiversity. 6 (1): 21–36. Bibcode:2020NeBio...6...21C. doi:10.1080/23766808.2020.1729306.

Slender-legged tree frog

Osteocephalus taurinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Subfamily:	Lophyohylinae
Genus:	Osteocephalus Steindachner, 1862
Species
26, see text.