Hyperolius variabilis Ahl, 1931a: 39.

Holotype.

ZMB 36122, “Bukoba” [Bukoba Urban District, Kagera Region, Tanzania], coll. Johann Gustav Hermann Schubotz, 15.VI.1907.

Paratypes.

ZMB 77802-77813 (formerly part of ZMB 36122), “Bukoba”, coll. Schubotz, 17.VI.1907; ZMB 36116, "Mohasi See", coll. Schubotz; ZMB 46518-46519, “NW-Buddu-Wald” [Minziro Forest, NW of Bukoba, Missenyi District, Kagera Region, Tanzania], coll. Schubotz, VI/1907; ZMB 46521, "Insel Kwidjwi (Kivu See)" [Idjwi (Ijwi) Island, Lake Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo], coll. Schubotz; ZMB 47210, "Sisse [sic], W-Niansa" [Sesse or Ssese Archipelago, Lake Victoria, Uganda], coll. Stuhlmann; ZMB 78564, “Udjidji” [Ujiji, Kigoma Province, Tanzania], coll. Dr. Hösemann; ZMB 85831, “Kagera-Ufer” [Tanzania], coll. Stuhlmann; ZMB 85879-85881, “Bukoba”, coll. Dr. Eggel; ZMB 85882, “Mpororo” [Region in southern Nyagatare District, Eastern Province, Rwanda], coll. Schubotz; ZMB 85890-85892 and ZMb 91000-91002, “Bukoba”, coll. Stuhlmann.

Present name.

Hyperolius viridiflavus ( Duméril & Bibron, 1841).

Remarks.

Ahl (1931a: 40) mentioned a series of 47 specimens from “Bukoba” including the “Type” . We failed to locate 23 of these specimens. He also lists 11 additional specimens that we could not locate, as well as a second specimen from "Mohasi See", coll. Schubotz and two specimens without locality or collector information. Drawings of seven specimens showing the variation of this taxon are published by Ahl (1931b: 298, fig. 173). These have been copied from Tornier (1896, pl. 4, specimen no. 26-28 and 30-33). Another two paratypes, MCZ A-17648 and 17626, from “Bukoba” collected during the first "Deutsche Zentral-Afrika-Expedition", 1907-1908 were sent in exchange to MCZ in 1932 (Barbour and Loveridge 1946: 129).