Slender-legged tree frogs

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.

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

See text.

Species
Binomial name and authorCommon name
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. langsdorfiiOcellated 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, 1987Brazilian slender-legged tree frog
O. taurinus Steindachner, 1862Manaus slender-legged tree frog
O. verruciger (Werner, 1901)Ecuador slender-legged tree frog
O. vilarsi (Melin, 1941)
O. yasuni Ron and Pramuk, 1999
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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.



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