Hyperolius pulcher Ahl, 1931a: 48.

Tillack, Frank, Ruiter, Ronald de & Roedel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, A type catalogue of the reed frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Hyperoliidae) in the collection of the Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin (ZMB) with comments on historical collectors and expeditions, Zoosystematics and Evolution 97 (2), pp. 407-450 : 407

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.68000

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scientific name

Hyperolius pulcher Ahl, 1931a: 48.
status

 

Hyperolius pulcher Ahl, 1931a: 48.

Holotype.

ZMB 36088, "Japoma, Kamerun" [suburb east of Douala, Region Littoral, Cameroon], coll. Hans Schäfer, 1.X.1910.

Present name.

Hyperolius concolor guttatus Peters, 1875, according to Frétey et al. (2014).

Remarks.

Drawing in Ahl (1931b: 308, fig. 183), reproduced by Frétey et al. (2014, fig. 6), who also provided a photograph and redescribed the holotype. In 1910 the naval physician Schäfer collected various botanical and zoological objects in Cameroon, e.g. at Mount Manengouba, Mount Cameroon (Fako) and Japoma, that are accessioned at ZMB and the Botanische Museum Berlin-Dahlem [Botanical Museum and Garden Berlin-Dahlem] ( Urban 1917).

Kingdom

Animalia

Class

Reptilia

Order

Anura

Family

Hyperoliidae

Genus

Hyperolius