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. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, 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. 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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