Osteocephalus oophagus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Hylidae
- Genus
- Osteocephalus
- Species
- Osteocephalus oophagus
- Scientific Name
- Osteocephalus oophagus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Osteocephalus oophagus
Osteocephalus oophagus is a species of frogs in the family Hylidae found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, and possibly Suriname. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is also reported to produce bufotenin.
Females return to the egg deposition sites at intervals of about five days and, usually in amplexus with the same male, and produce eggs that serve as food for the tadpoles, hence the specific name meaning "egg eater".
...Osteocephalus oophagus in languages:
- Czech
- rosnička vejcožravá
- English
- Egg-eating Spiny-backed Frog
- French
- Ostéocéphale oophage
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Osteocephalus alboguttatus
- Osteocephalus buckleyi
- Osteocephalus cabrerai
- Osteocephalus camufatus
- Osteocephalus cannatellai
- Osteocephalus carri
- Osteocephalus castaneicola
- Osteocephalus deridens
- Osteocephalus duellmani
- Osteocephalus festae
- Osteocephalus fuscifacies
- Osteocephalus helenae
- Osteocephalus heyeri
- Osteocephalus leoniae
- Osteocephalus leprieurii
- Osteocephalus melanops
- Osteocephalus mimeticus
- Osteocephalus mutabor
- Osteocephalus omega
- Osteocephalus oophagus
- Osteocephalus planiceps
- Osteocephalus sangay
- Osteocephalus subtilis
- Osteocephalus taurinus
- Osteocephalus verruciger
- Osteocephalus vilarsi
- Osteocephalus yasuni








































































