Slender-legged tree frogs

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

Osteocephalus is a genus of frogs (slender-legged tree frogs)in the Hylidae family found in the Guianas, the Amazon Basin, Venezuela, Colombia, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina. Males are warty, while females are smooth.

Species

Binomial name and author	Common name
O. buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882)	Buckley's slender-legged tree frog
O. cabrerai (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
O. carri (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
O. deridens Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000
O. elkejungingerae (Henle, 1981)	Henle's slender-legged tree frog
O. exophthalmus Smith and Noonan, 2001
O. fuscifacies Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000
O. heyeri Lynch, 2002
O. langsdorfii	Ocellated tree frog
O. leoniae Jungfer and Lehr, 2001
O. leprieurii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)	Cayenne slender-legged tree frog
O. mutabor Jungfer and Hödl, 2002
O. oophagus Jungfer and Schiesari, 1995
O. pearsoni (Gaige, 1929)	Pearson's slender-legged tree frog
O. phasmatus MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2005
O. planiceps Cope, 1874
O. subtilis Martins and Cardoso, 1987	Brazilian slender-legged tree frog
O. taurinus Steindachner, 1862	Manaus slender-legged tree frog
O. verruciger (Werner, 1901)	Ecuador slender-legged tree frog
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.

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 http://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
• GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Osteocephalus at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm