Osteocephalus castaneicola Moravec, Aparicio, Guerrero-Reinhard, Calderón, Jungfer, and Gvoždík, 2009

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Osteocephalus > Species: Osteocephalus castaneicola

Osteocephalus castaneicola Moravec, Aparicio, Guerrero-Reinhard, Calderón, Jungfer, and Gvoždík, 2009, Zootaxa, 2215: 43. Holotype: CBF 6051, by original designation. Type locality: "the vicinity of the settlement of San Antonio de Filadelfia, 11°18′ S, 67°23′ W, ca. 200 m a.s.l., Provincia Manuripi, Departamento Pando, Bolivia".

English Names

Chestnut's Slender-legged Treefrog (Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 172).

Distribution

Western and northern parts of the Departamento Pando and adjacent Departamento La Paz in northern Bolivia, and in adjacent southeastern Peru (Madre de Dios); in northern Rondônia (Porto Velho) and south-central Amazonas (Reserva Extrativista do Rio Gregorio) on the Acre border and Stadual Park Chandless, Manoel Urbano, Acre, Brazil. 

Comment

In the Osteocephalus planiceps species group of Jungfer, Faivovich, Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Lyra, Berneck, Iglesias, Kok, MacCulloch, Rodrigues, Verdade, Torres-Gastello, Chaparro, Valdujo, Reichle, Moravec, Gvoždík, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Ernst, De la Riva, Means, Lima, Señaris, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2013, Zool. Scripta, 42: 351-380. Meneghelli and Entiauspe, 2014, Check List, 10: 957–959, provided a record for Rondônia, Brazil, and commented on the range. Aguilar-Kirigin, 2012, Cuad. Herpetol., 26: 107–109, provided records for La Paz Department, Bolivia. Silva, Ramalho, Matos, Silva, and Machado, 2016, Check List, 12 (1: 1826): 1–3. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 172–173. 

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