Cayenne slender-legged tree frog

Cayenne slender-legged tree frog
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Osteocephalus
Species: O. leprieurii
Binomial name
Osteocephalus leprieurii
(Duméril & Bibron, 1841)
Synonyms

Osteocephalus ayarzaguenai Gorzula & Señaris, 1997 "1996"

The Cayenne slender-legged tree frog (Osteocephalus leprieurii) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana,[1] Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and intermittent freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. Cole, C.J., C.R. Townsend, R.P. Reynolds, R.D. MacCulloch and A. Lathrop (2013). "Amphibians and reptiles of Guyana, South America: Illustrated keys, annotated species accounts, and a biogeographic synopsis". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 125: 317–620. doi:10.2988/0006-324x-125.4.317.


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