Osteopilus

Osteopilus is a group of frogs in the family Hylidae. These frogs have a bony bumps on their skulls. This makes their heads like helmets.  These helmet-skulls are called casques.  The name "osteopilus" comes from the Greek words osteo- for "bone" and  () for "felt cap." Together, Osteopilus means "bone cap." 
These frogs can be brown, brown-gray, or olive green in color with darker markings or patterns. The disks on their toes. They do not have much webbing on their front feet. The eyes and eardrum are large. 
These frogs live in the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, but human beings have brought O. septentrionalis to the Lesser Antilles, Hawaii, and Florida.

Species
There are eight species in this genus:Osteopilus, Amphibian Species of the World 5.6

ImageBinomial name and author Common name  O. crucialis   Jamaican snoring frog or Harlan's Antilles frog 120px O. dominicensis   Hispaniolan common tree frog or Dominican tree frog  O. marianae   yellow bromeliad frog or Spaldings tree frog  O. ocellatus   Jamaican laughing frog, or Savanna-la-Mar tree frog, Brown tree frog O. pulchrilineatus   Hispaniolan yellow tree frog 120px O. septentrionalis   Cuban tree frog  O. vastus   Hispaniolan giant tree frog O. wilderi   green bromeliad frog or Wilder's tree frog 

References

Other websites
  [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Osteopilus. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008). 
  taxon Osteopilus at http://www.eol.org.
  Taxon Osteopilus at https://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
  Taxon Osteopilus at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm

Category:Invasive species
Category:Frogs of North America