Slender-legged Treefrogs
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{{Taxobox
| name = Slender-legged Treefrogs
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Amphibia]]
| ordo = [[Anura]]
| familia = [[Hylidae]]
| genus = '''''Osteocephalus'''''
| genus_authority = [[Franz Steindachner|Steindachner]], [[1862]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
See text.
}}
'''Slender-legged Treefrogs''' ('''''Osteocephalus''''') is a genus of [[frog]]s in the [[Hylidae]] family, and are found in the [[Guianas]], the [[Amazon Basin]], [[Venezuela]], [[Colombia]], southeastern [[Brazil]] and northeastern [[Argentina]]. Males look warty, while females are smooth.
==Species==
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!Binomial Name and Author!! Common Name
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| ''[[Osteocephalus buckleyi]]'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1882)}} || Buckley's Slender-legged Treefrog
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| ''[[Osteocephalus cabrerai]]'' {{small|(Cochran and Goin, 1970)}} ||
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| ''[[Osteocephalus carri]]'' {{small|(Cochran and Goin, 1970)}} ||
|-style="background:#FFFDFF;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus deridens]]'' {{small|Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000}} ||
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| ''[[Osteocephalus elkejungingerae]]'' {{small|(Henle, 1981)}} || Henle's Slender-legged Treefrog
|-style="background:#FFFDFF;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus exophthalmus]]'' {{small|Smith and Noonan, 2001}} ||
|-style="background:#EEEEEE;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus fuscifacies]]'' {{small|Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000}} ||
|-style="background:#FFFDFF;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus heyeri]]'' {{small|Lynch, 2002}} ||
|-style="background:#EEEEEE;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus langsdorfii]]'' {{small|}} ||
|-style="background:#EEEEEE;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus leoniae]]'' {{small|Jungfer and Lehr, 2001}} ||
|-style="background:#FFFDFF;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus leprieurii]]'' {{small|(Duméril and Bibron, 1841)}} || Cayenne Slender-legged Treefrog
|-style="background:#EEEEEE;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus mutabor]]'' {{small|Jungfer and Hödl, 2002}} ||
|-style="background:#FFFDFF;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus oophagus]]'' {{small|Jungfer and Schiesari, 1995}} ||
|-style="background:#EEEEEE;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus pearsoni]]'' {{small|(Gaige, 1929)}} || Pearson's Slender-legged Treefrog
|-style="background:#FFFDFF;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus phasmatus]]'' {{small|MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2005}} ||
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| ''[[Osteocephalus planiceps]]'' {{small|Cope, 1874}} ||
|-style="background:#FFFDFF;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus subtilis]]'' {{small|Martins and Cardoso, 1987}} || Brazilian Slender-legged Treefrog
|-style="background:#EEEEEE;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus taurinus]]'' {{small|Steindachner, 1862}} || Manaus Slender-legged Treefrog
|-style="background:#FFFDFF;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus verruciger]]'' {{small|(Werner, 1901)}} || Ecuador Slender-legged Treefrog
|-style="background:#EEEEEE;"
| ''[[Osteocephalus yasuni]]'' {{small|Ron and Pramuk, 1999}} ||
|-
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==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]
==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 [http://www.eol.org/taxa/16141819 ''Osteocephalus''] at http://www.eol.org.
* {{aut|ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database}} Taxon [http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=661466 ''Osteocephalus''] at http://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
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