Osteocephalus Steindachner, 1862
Osteocephalus Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30. Type species: Osteocephalus taurinus Fizinger, 1843, by original designation. Nomen nudum.
Osteocephalus Steindachner, 1862, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol., Fasc. 1, 2: 77. Type species: Osteocephalus taurinus Steindachner, 1862, by subsequent designation of Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 149.
English Names
Slender-legged Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).
Distribution
Guianas, Amazon Basin, and upper Orinoco and Magdalena drainages in Venezuela and Colombia.
Comment
See Trueb and Duellman, 1971, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 1: 1-47, for a review of this genus. See comment under Tepuihyla. Ron and Pramuk, 1999, Herpetologica, 55: 435, noted at a least three species remain undescribed the upper Amazon basin in Ecuador and Peru and that Osteocephalus was likely paraphyletic with respect to some group of other casque-headed treefrogs. Jungfer and Hödl, 2002, Amphibia-Reptilia, 23: 21-46, named one of these species and provided much useful comparative information on members of the genus. Lynch, 2002, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 26: 289-292, commented on the relationships of this taxon. In Lophiohylini of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 107-108. Moravec, Aparicio, Guerrero-Reinhard, Calderón, Jungfer, and Gvoždík, 2009, Zootaxa, 2215: 37-54, provided a tree for exemplars of the species and noted a rather large number of likely misidentifications associated with GenBank sequences. MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2009, R. Ontario Mus. Contrib. Sci., 4: 14, reported a likely undescribed species from Mount Ayanganna, Guyana. Ron, Toral, Venegas, and Barnes, 2010, ZooKeys, 70: 67-92, provided a molecular tree for nine species. Ron, Venegas, Toral, Read, Ortiz, and Manzano, 2012, ZooKeys, 229: 1-52, provided a revision of the Osteocephalus buckleyi group and a tree based on molecular evidence.
Contained taxa
- Osteocephalus alboguttatus (Boulenger, 1882)
- Osteocephalus buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882)
- Osteocephalus cabrerai (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
- Osteocephalus cannatellai Ron, Venegas, Toral, Read, Ortiz, and Manzano, 2012
- Osteocephalus carri (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
- Osteocephalus castaneicola Moravec, Aparicio, Guerrero-Reinhard, Calderón, Jungfer, and Gvoždík, 2009
- Osteocephalus deridens Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000
- Osteocephalus duellmani Jungfer, 2011
- Osteocephalus exophthalmus Smith and Noonan, 2001
- Osteocephalus festae (Peracca, 1904)
- Osteocephalus fuscifacies Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000
- Osteocephalus germani Ron, Venegas, Toral, Read, Ortiz, and Manzano, 2012
- Osteocephalus heyeri Lynch, 2002
- Osteocephalus inframaculatus (Boulenger, 1882)
- Osteocephalus leoniae Jungfer and Lehr, 2001
- Osteocephalus leprieurii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
- Osteocephalus mimeticus (Melin, 1941)
- Osteocephalus mutabor Jungfer and Hödl, 2002
- Osteocephalus oophagus Jungfer and Schiesari, 1995
- Osteocephalus pearsoni (Gaige, 1929)
- Osteocephalus phasmatus MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2005
- Osteocephalus planiceps Cope, 1874
- Osteocephalus subtilis Martins and Cardoso, 1987
- Osteocephalus taurinus Steindachner, 1862
- Osteocephalus verruciger (Werner, 1901)
- Osteocephalus vilarsi (Melin, 1941)
- Osteocephalus vilmae Ron, Venegas, Toral, Read, Ortiz, and Manzano, 2012
- Osteocephalus yasuni Ron and Pramuk, 1999
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