Osteopilus
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 Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, but O. septentrionalis has also been introduced to the Lesser Antilles, Hawaii and Florida (USA).
| Osteopilus | |
|---|---|
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| Osteopilus septentrionalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Subfamily: | Lophyohylinae |
| Genus: | Osteopilus Fitzinger, 1843 |
| Species | |
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8 sp., see text | |
Species
Eight species are recognized in this genus:[2]
| Image | Binomial name and author | Common name |
|---|---|---|
| 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
- Dodd, C. Kenneth (2013). Frogs of the United States and Canada. 1. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 20. 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
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