Osteocephalus carri

Osteocephalus carri is a frog in the family Hylidae. It lives in Colombia. It lives near the Amazon River and a little way up into the Andes mountains.[1][2] Scientists have seen it as high as 700 meters above sea level.[3]

Osteocephalus carri
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Osteocephalus
Species:
O. carri
Binomial name
Osteocephalus carri
(Cochran and Goin, 1970)
Synonyms[1]
  • Hyla carri Cochran and Goin, 1970
  • Osteocephalus carri Lynch, 2006

Scientists used to think this was the same frog as Osteocephalus buckleyi, but it is not. Scientists watched the frogs and saw the tadpoles of the two species looked different.[3]

References
  1. Frost, Darrel R. "Osteocephalus carri (Cochran and Goin, 1970)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  2. "Osteocephalus carri". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  3. Lynch, John D. (2006). "The amphibian fauna in the Villavicencio region of eastern Colombia". Caldasia (Full text). 28 (1): 141.
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