Osteopilus
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Osteopilus is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. These species have a bony co-ossification on the skull resulting in a casque, hence its name ‘bone-cap’, from osteo- (‘bone’) and the Greek Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., ‘felt cap’).[1] Color varies between uniform brown, brown-gray, or olive with darker markings or marbled with greens, grays or brown, making a distinct pattern. The finger disks are round; the fingers with a reduced webbing; eyes and tympanum are large. Their natural range includes the Greater Antilles (except Puerto Rico) and the Bahamas, but O. septentrionalis has also been introduced to the Lesser Antilles, Hawaii and Florida, USA.
Species
Eight species are recognized in this genus:[2]
| Image | Binomial name and author | Common name |
|---|---|---|
| O. crucialis (Harlan, 1826)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Jamaican snoring frog or Harlan's Antilles frog | |
| File:Osteopilus dominicensis01.jpg | O. dominicensis (Tschudi, 1838)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Hispaniolan common tree frog or Dominican tree frog |
| O. marianae (Dunn, 1926)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | yellow bromeliad frog or Spaldings tree frog | |
| O. ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1758)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Jamaican laughing frog, or Savanna-la-Mar tree frog, Brown tree frog | |
| O. pulchrilineatus (Cope, 1870)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Hispaniolan yellow tree frog | |
| File:Osteopilus septentrionalis 6.jpg | O. septentrionalis (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Cuban tree frog |
| O. vastus (Cope, 1871)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Hispaniolan giant tree frog | |
| O. wilderi (Dunn, 1925)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | green bromeliad frog or Wilder's tree frog |
References
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- ↑ Osteopilus, Amphibian Species of the World 5.6
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External links
- <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Osteopilus. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
- <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Osteopilus at http://www.eol.org.
- <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database Taxon Osteopilus at https://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
- <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Osteopilus at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm