Osteocephalus deridens Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz, 2000

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

Osteocephalus deridens Jungfer, Ron, Seipp, and Almendáriz C., 2000, Amphibia-Reptilia, 21: 328. Holotype: EPN-H 6655, by original designation. Type locality: "Estación Biologica Jatun Sacha, (01° 04′ S; 77° 36′ W), a reserve about 8 km E Puerto Misahuallí, Provincia Napo, Ecuador, 450 m a.s.l."

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Intermediate elevations (250-600 m) of the Río Napo drainage in the provinces of Napo, Francisco de Orellana, and Sucumbíos, Ecuador; northern Amazonian Peru; Amazonian Colombia (Cauquetá, Amazonas, and Guaviare), and Estação Ecológica Juami-Japurá, municipality of Japurá, Amazonas, Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

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. Moravec, Aparicio, Guerrero-Reinhard, Calderón, Jungfer, and Gvoždík, 2009, Zootaxa, 2215: 54, provided a record for Amazonian Peru. Forti, Foratto, Márquez, Pereira, and Toledo, 2018, PeerJ, 6(e4813): 1–19, characterized the advertisement call. Simões, Rojas-Runjaic, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2019, Herpetol. Notes, 12: 211–219, provided a record for Brazil (Estação Ecológica Juami-Japurá, municipality of Japurá, Amazonas, Brazil) and described the advertisement call. See range map in Ferrão, Moravec, Moraes, Carvalho, and Gordo, 2019, PeerJ, 7(e8160): 4. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 112–113, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru. 

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