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Osteopilus

{{Short description|Genus of amphibians}}

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| image_caption = Osteopilus septentrionalis

| taxon = Osteopilus

| authority = Fitzinger, 1843

| subdivision = 8 sp., see text

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Osteopilus is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. These species have a bony co-ossification on the skull resulting in a casque, hence its name ‘bone-cap’, from osteo- (‘bone’) and the Greek {{transl|grc|pilos}} ({{lang|grc|πῖλος}}, ‘felt cap’).{{cite book|last=Dodd|first=C. Kenneth|title=Frogs of the United States and Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Hwfz9P9gS0C&pg=PR20|volume=1|date=2013|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0633-6|page=20}}

Color varies between uniform brown, brown-gray, or olive with darker markings or marbled with greens, grays or brown, making a distinct pattern. The finger disks are round; the fingers with a reduced webbing; eyes and tympanum are large.

Their natural range includes the Greater Antilles (except Puerto Rico) and the Bahamas, but O. septentrionalis has also been introduced to the Lesser Antilles, Hawaii and Florida, USA.

Species

Eight species are recognized in this genus:[http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/?action=names&taxon=&family=&subfamily=&genus=Osteopilus Osteopilus], Amphibian Species of the World 5.6

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O. crucialis {{small|(Harlan, 1826)}}Jamaican snoring frog or Harlan's Antilles frog
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O. dominicensis {{small|(Tschudi, 1838)}}Hispaniolan common tree frog or Dominican tree frog
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O. marianae {{small|(Dunn, 1926)}}yellow bromeliad frog or Spaldings tree frog
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O. ocellatus {{small|(Linnaeus, 1758)}}Jamaican laughing frog, or Savanna-la-Mar tree frog, Brown tree frog
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O. pulchrilineatus {{small|(Cope, 1870)}}Hispaniolan yellow tree frog
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O. septentrionalis {{small|(Duméril and Bibron, 1841)}}Cuban tree frog
style="background:#EEEEEE;"| O. vastus {{small|(Cope, 1871)}}Hispaniolan giant tree frog
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O. wilderi {{small|(Dunn, 1925)}}green bromeliad frog or Wilder's tree frog

References

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External links

  • {{aut|AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation.}} [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: [http://amphibiaweb.org/cgi-bin/amphib_query?query_src=aw_lists_genera_&table=amphib&where-genus=Osteopilus&where-species= Osteopilus]. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
  • {{aut|eol - Encyclopedia of Life}} taxon [https://web.archive.org/web/20081005185652/http://www.eol.org/taxa/16141958 Osteopilus] at http://www.eol.org.
  • {{aut|ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database}} Taxon [https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=173537 Osteopilus] at https://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
  • {{aut|GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility}} Taxon [http://data.gbif.org/species/13184519/ Osteopilus] at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm

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Category:Amphibian genera

Category:Taxa named by Leopold Fitzinger

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