Slender-legged tree frogs

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| image = Osteocephalus taurinus 02.jpg

| image_caption = Osteocephalus taurinus

| taxon = Osteocephalus

| authority = Steindachner, 1862

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 25, see text.

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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:{{Cite journal|last1=Chasiluisa|first1=Valeria D.|last2=Caminer|first2=Marcel A.|last3=Varela-Jaramillo|first3=Andrea|last4=Ron|first4=Santiago R.|date=2020-01-01|title=Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of treefrog of the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group (Anura: Hylidae)|journal=Neotropical Biodiversity|volume=6|issue=1|pages=21–36|doi=10.1080/23766808.2020.1729306|doi-access=free|bibcode=2020NeBio...6...21C }}

O. alboguttatus {{small|(Boulenger, 1882)}}
O. buckleyi {{small|(Boulenger, 1882)}} — Buckley's slender-legged tree frog
O. cabrerai {{small|(Cochran and Goin, 1970)}}
O. camufatus {{small|(Jungfer, Verdade, Faivovich, and Rodrigues, 2016)}}
O. cannatellai {{small|(Ron, Venegas, Toral, Read, Ortiz, and Manzano, 2012)}}
O. carri {{small|(Cochran and Goin, 1970)}}
O. castaneicola {{small|(Moravec, Aparicio, Guerrero-Reinhard, Calderón, Jungfer, and Gvoždík, 2009)}}
O. deridens {{small|(Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000)}}
O. duellmani {{small|(Jungfer, 2011)}}
O. festae {{small|(Peracca, 1904)}}
O. fuscifacies {{small|(Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000)}}
O. helenae {{small|(Ruthven, 1919)}}
O. heyeri {{small|(Lynch, 2002)}}
O. leoniae {{small|(Jungfer and Lehr, 2001)}}
O. leprieurii {{small|(Duméril and Bibron, 1841)}} — Cayenne slender-legged tree frog
O. mimeticus {{small|(Melin, 1941)}}
O. mutabor {{small|(Jungfer and Hödl, 2002)}}
O. oophagus {{small|(Jungfer and Schiesari, 1995)}}
O. planiceps {{small|(Cope, 1874)}}
O. sangay {{Small|(Chasiluisa, Caminer, Varela-Jaramillo & Ron, 2020)}}{{Cite journal|last1=Chasiluisa|first1=Valeria D.|last2=Caminer|first2=Marcel A.|last3=Varela-Jaramillo|first3=Andrea|last4=Ron|first4=Santiago R.|date=2020-01-01|title=Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of treefrog of the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group (Anura: Hylidae)|journal=Neotropical Biodiversity|volume=6|issue=1|pages=21–36|doi=10.1080/23766808.2020.1729306|doi-access=free|bibcode=2020NeBio...6...21C }} — Sangay casqued tree frog
O. subtilis {{small|(Martins and Cardoso, 1987)}} — Brazilian slender-legged tree frog
O. taurinus {{small|(Steindachner, 1862)}} — Manaus slender-legged tree frog
O. vasquezi {{small|(Venegas, García-Ayachi, Toral, Malqui, and Ron, 2023)}}
O. verruciger {{small|(Werner, 1901)}} — Ecuador slender-legged tree frog
O. vilarsi {{small|(Melin, 1941)}}
O. yasuni {{small|(Ron and Pramuk, 1999)}}

References

{{aut|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]
{{aut|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]
{{aut|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

{{aut|Frost, Darrel R}}. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007). [http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/names.php?taxon=&family=&subfamily=&genus=Osteocephalus&commname=&authority=&year=&geo=0&dist=&comment= 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).
{{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=Osteocephalus&where-species= Osteocephalus]. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
{{aut|eol - Encyclopedia of Life}} taxon [https://web.archive.org/web/20081005171631/http://www.eol.org/taxa/16141819 Osteocephalus] 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=661466 Osteocephalus] at https://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
{{aut|GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility}} Taxon [http://data.gbif.org/species/13184380/ Osteocephalus] at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm

Category:Amphibian genera