Slender-legged tree frogs

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

Osteocephalus is a group of frogs. In English, they are named the slender-legged tree frogs. They are a genus in the family Hylidae. They live in the Guianas, the Amazon Basin, Venezuela, Colombia, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina. Male frogs have warty, bumpy skin, and female frogs have smooth skin.

Species

There are 25 species in Osteocephalus:

• 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. 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. sangay (Chasiluisa, Caminer, Varela-Jaramillo & Ron, 2020) — Sangay casqued tree frog
• O. subtilis (Martins and 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 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.

Other websites

• 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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