Hyperolius major Laurent, 1954
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Hyperolius major Laurent, 1954 |
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Hyperolius major Laurent, 1954 View in CoL
Material. HILLWOOD FARM: BMNH 2018.5675 ( Fig. 3L View Fig ). Comments: One male found on top of a leaf (1.5 m from the ground) calling at night. Schiøtz (1999) reports this as a savannah species from north-western Zambia and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC), however, this specimen was found in a forest patch (mushito). The closest matches from DNA barcoding (97%) are H. kuligae and H. langi (D. Portik, pers. comm.). Schiøtz (1999) states that these species found in west and central Africa are very similar in morphology and dorsal pattern, and may be conspecific. In contrast, Kohler et al. (2005) treat H. kuligae as a western and H. langi as an eastern Central African form. However, the color pattern (especially the post orbital marking) differs substantially from Laurent’s description of the type material of H. langi , whereas this specimen agrees with the morphological description of H. major provided by Schiøtz (1999). There is no DNA sequence of H. major available for comparison.
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