Slender-legged tree frogs
Genus of amphibians
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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.
| Slender-legged tree frogs | |
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| Osteocephalus taurinus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Subfamily: | Lophyohylinae |
| Genus: | Osteocephalus Steindachner, 1862 |
| Species | |
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25, see text. | |
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Species
There are currently many 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. vasquezi (Venegas, García-Ayachi, Toral, Malqui, and Ron, 2023)
- O. verruciger (Werner, 1901) — Ecuador slender-legged tree frog
- O. vilarsi (Melin, 1941)
- O. yasuni (Ron and Pramuk, 1999)
