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Wikipedia / 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 (, ‘felt cap’). 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:

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Binomial name and author

Common name

O. crucialis

Jamaican snoring frog or Harlan's Antilles frog

O. dominicensis

Hispaniolan common tree frog or Dominican tree frog

O. marianae

yellow bromeliad frog or Spaldings tree frog

O. ocellatus

Jamaican laughing frog, or Savanna-la-Mar tree frog, Brown tree frog

O. pulchrilineatus

Hispaniolan yellow tree frog

O. septentrionalis

Cuban tree frog

O. vastus

Hispaniolan giant tree frog

O. wilderi

green bromeliad frog or Wilder's tree frog

References

  • [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: . AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).

  • taxon at http://www.eol.org.

  • Taxon at https://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).

  • Taxon at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm