Osteopilus
Lua error: expandTemplate: template "Children rank" does not exist. Osteopilus is a group of frogs in the family Hylidae. These frogs have a bony bumps on their skulls. This makes their heads like helmets. These helmet-skulls are called casques. The name "osteopilus" comes from the Greek words osteo- for "bone" and <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">pilos (πῖλος) for "felt cap." Together, Osteopilus means "bone cap."[1] These frogs can be brown, brown-gray, or olive green in color with darker markings or patterns. The disks on their toes. They do not have much webbing on their front feet. The eyes and eardrum are large. These frogs live in the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, but human beings have brought O. septentrionalis to the Lesser Antilles, Hawaii, and Florida.
Species
There are eight species in this genus:[2]
| Image | Binomial name and author | Common name |
|---|---|---|
| O. crucialis (Harlan, 1826) | Jamaican snoring frog or Harlan's Antilles frog | |
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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 | |
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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. Vol. 1. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4214-0633-6.
- ↑ Osteopilus, Amphibian Species of the World 5.6
Other websites
- 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