Slender-legged Treefrogs 2969629 219360377 2008-06-14T21:26:51Z Ninjawailer 170199 {{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== {|style="text-align:left; border:1px solid #999999; " |-style="background:#CCCC99; text-align: center; " !Binomial Name and Author!! Common Name |- |-style="background:#EEEEEE;" | ''[[Osteocephalus buckleyi]]'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1882)}} || Buckley's Slender-legged Treefrog |-style="background:#FFFDFF;" | ''[[Osteocephalus cabrerai]]'' {{small|(Cochran and Goin, 1970)}} || |-style="background:#EEEEEE;" | ''[[Osteocephalus carri]]'' {{small|(Cochran and Goin, 1970)}} || |-style="background:#FFFDFF;" | ''[[Osteocephalus deridens]]'' {{small|Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000}} || |-style="background:#EEEEEE;" | ''[[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}} || |-style="background:#EEEEEE;" | ''[[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}} || |- |} ==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 <br /> {{Hylidae-stub}} [[Category:Osteocephalus]] [[ca:Osteocephalus]] [[fr:Osteocephalus]] [[hu:Osteocephalus]] [[nl:Osteocephalus]]