Osteopilus
Osteopilus | |
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Osteopilus septentrionalis
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hylidae |
Subfamily: | Lophyohylinae |
Genus: | Osteopilus Fitzinger, 1843 |
Species | |
8 sp., see text |
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 pilos (πῖλος, ‘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
(USA).Species
Eight species are recognized in this genus:[2]
Image | Binomial name and author | Common name |
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O. crucialis (Harlan, 1826) | Jamaican snoring frog or Harlan's Antilles frog | |
O. dominicensis (Tschudi, 1838) | Hispaniolan common tree frog or Dominican tree frog | |
O. marianae (Dunn, 1926) | yellow bromeliad frog or Spaldings tree frog | |
O. ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Jamaican laughing frog, or Savanna-la-Mar tree frog, Brown tree frog | |
O. pulchrilineatus (Cope, 1870) | Hispaniolan yellow tree frog | |
O. septentrionalis (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) | Cuban tree frog | |
O. vastus (Cope, 1871) | Hispaniolan giant tree frog | |
O. wilderi (Dunn, 1925) | green bromeliad frog or Wilder's tree frog |
References
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0633-6.
- ^ Osteopilus, Amphibian Species of the World 5.6
External links
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Osteopilus. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
- eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Osteopilus at http://www.eol.org.
- ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database Taxon Osteopilus at https://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
- GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Osteopilus at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm