Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Batrachomorpha
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Superordo: Batrachia
Cladus: Salientia
Ordo: Anura
Familia: Hylidae
Subfamilia: Lophyohylinae
Genus: Osteocephalus
Species (24): O. alboguttatus – O. buckleyi – O. cabrerai – O. camufatus – O. cannatellai – O. carri – O. castaneicola – O. deridens – O. duellmani – O. festae – O. fuscifacies – O. helenae – O. heyeri – O. leoniae – O. leprieurii – O. mimeticus – O. mutabor – O. oophagus – O. planiceps – O. subtilis – O. taurinus – O. vasquezi – O. verruciger – O. vilarsi – O. yasuni
Name
Osteocephalus Steindachner, 1862: 77
Type species: Osteocephalus taurinus Steindachner, 1862, by subsequent designation of Kellogg (1932: 149).
Osteocephalus buckleyi
References
Primary references
Steindachner, F. 1862. Über zwei noch unbeschriebene Batrachier aus des Sammlung des K. K. zoologischn Museum zu Wien. Archivio per la zoologia, l'anatomia e la fisiologia Fasciolo 1, 2: 77–82.
Additional references
Moravec, J. et al. 2009. A new species of Osteocephalus (Anura: Hylidae) from Amazonian Bolivia: first evidence of tree frog breeding in fruit capsules of the Brazil nut tree. Zootaxa 2215: 37–54. Abstract & excerpt.
Jungfer, K.H. 2010. The taxonomic status of some spiny-backed treefrogs, genus Osteocephalus (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae). Zootaxa 2407: 28–50. Preview.
Jungfer, K.-H., Faivovich, J., Padial, J.M., Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Lyra, M.L., Berneck, B.V.M., Iglesias, P.P., Kok, P.J.R., MacCulloch, R.D., Rodrigues, M.T., Verdade, V.K., Torres-Gastello, C.P., Chaparro, J.C., Valdujo, P.H., Reichle, S., Moravec, J., Gvoždík, V., Gagliardi-Urrutia, G., Ernst, R., De la Riva, I., Means, D.B., Lima, A.P., Señaris, J.C., Wheeler, W.C., & Haddad, C.F.B. 2013. Systematics of spiny-backed treefrogs (Hylidae: Osteocephalus): an Amazonian puzzle. Zoologica Scripta 42(4): 351–380. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12015 Reference page.
Jungfer, K-H., Verdade, V.K., Faivovich, J. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2016. A new species of spiny-backed treefrog (Osteocephalus) from Central Amazonian Brazil (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae). Zootaxa 4114(2): 171–181. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.2.6. Reference page.
Links
Amphibian Species of the World 5.1 Osteocephalus access date 25 Apr. 2008
Vernacular names
English: Slender-legged Treefrogs
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 25 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. verruciger (Werner, 1901) — Ecuador slender-legged tree frog
O. vilarsi (Melin, 1941)
O. yasuni (Ron and Pramuk, 1999)
References
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.
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, 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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