Slender-legged tree frogs

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

Osteocephalus cabrerai

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

There are currently many described species in Osteocephalus: ^[1]

• 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) ^[2] — 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, and Ron, 2023)
• O. verruciger (Werner, 1901) — Ecuador slender-legged tree frog
• O. vilarsi (Melin, 1941)
• O. yasuni (Ron and Pramuk, 1999)

References

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 .

• Jungfer, K.-H., Schiesari, L.C. (1995a): Description of a central Amazonian and Guianan tree frog, genus Osteocephalus (Anura, Hylidae), with oophagous tadpoles. - Alytes, Paris13(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-Reptilia21(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-Reptilia23(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 Scripta42: 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