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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 | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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] | |
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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]
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