Osteopilus ocellatus

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Osteopilus ocellatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Osteopilus
Species:
O. ocellatus
Binomial name
Osteopilus ocellatus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[3]
  • Rana ocellata Linnaeus, 1758
  • Hyla brunnea Gosse, 1851
  • Trachycephalus scutigerus Cope, 1863
  • Hyla septentrionalis brunnea Barbour, 1937
  • Hyla dominicensis brunnea Mittleman, 1950
  • Osteopilus brunneus Trueb and Tyler, 1974
  • Osteopilus ocellatus Lavilla, Langone, Caramaschi, Heyer, and de Sá, 2010

The Jamaican laughing frog, Savanna-la-Mar tree frog, or brown tree frog (Osteopilus ocellatus) is a frog. It lives in Jamaica. Scientists have seen it 1500 meters above sea level.[3][1][2]

First paper[change | change source]

  • Lavilla EO; Langone JA; Caramaschi U; Heyer WR (2010). "Nomenclatural impact on the species currently known as Leptodactylus ocellatus (Leptodactylildae) and Osteopilus brunneus (Gosse, 1851)(Hylidae)". Zootaxa. 2346: 1–16. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2346.1.1.

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Osteopilus ocellatus". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2004). "Osteopilus ocellatus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 3.1: e.T55806A172794433. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T55806A172794433.en. S2CID 242275741. 55806. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Osteopilus ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1758)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved September 1, 2022.