<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.68000" ID-GBIF-Dataset="617dbf89-ec8b-48a2-a13e-ea581e42aecc" ID-GBIF-Taxon="184132939" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1860-0743-2-407" ID-Pensoft-UUID="9446F0CE40A752B4897F7B7B71BBFD29" ID-ZooBank="DC2EBA6293A141938ADC2A79F7D658B9" ModsDocID="1860-0743-97-2-407" checkinTime="1628790185545" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Tillack, Frank, Ruiter, Ronald de & Roedel, Mark-Oliver" docDate="2021" docId="1D3B4025B7B955B799CC920C7B555FDF" docLanguage="en" docName="ZoosystEvol 97(2): 407-450" docOrigin="Zoosystematics and Evolution 97 (2)" docPubDate="2021-08-10" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.68000" docTitle="Hyperolius pygmaeus Ahl 1931" docType="treatment" docVersion="3" id="9446F0CE40A752B4897F7B7B71BBFD29" lastPageNumber="407" masterDocId="9446F0CE40A752B4897F7B7B71BBFD29" masterDocTitle="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" masterLastPageNumber="450" masterPageNumber="407" pageId="0" pageNumber="407" updateTime="1643430994971" updateUser="ExternalLinkService"> <mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3"> <mods:titleInfo> <mods:title>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</mods:title> </mods:titleInfo> <mods:name type="personal"> <mods:role> <mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm> </mods:role> <mods:namePart>Tillack, Frank</mods:namePart> <mods:affiliation>Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany</mods:affiliation> </mods:name> <mods:name type="personal"> <mods:role> <mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm> </mods:role> <mods:namePart>Ruiter, Ronald de</mods:namePart> <mods:affiliation>Nederlands Openluchtmuseum, Hoeferlaan 4, 6816 SG Arnhem, The Netherlands</mods:affiliation> </mods:name> <mods:name type="personal"> <mods:role> <mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm> </mods:role> <mods:namePart>Roedel, Mark-Oliver</mods:namePart> <mods:nameIdentifier type="ORCID">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1666-195X</mods:nameIdentifier> <mods:affiliation>Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany</mods:affiliation> <mods:nameIdentifier type="email">mo.roedel@mfn-berlin.de</mods:nameIdentifier> </mods:name> <mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource> <mods:relatedItem type="host"> <mods:titleInfo> <mods:title>Zoosystematics and Evolution</mods:title> </mods:titleInfo> <mods:part> <mods:date>2021</mods:date> <mods:detail type="pubDate"> <mods:number>2021-08-10</mods:number> </mods:detail> <mods:detail type="volume"> <mods:number>97</mods:number> </mods:detail> <mods:detail type="issue"> <mods:number>2</mods:number> </mods:detail> <mods:extent unit="page"> <mods:start>407</mods:start> <mods:end>450</mods:end> </mods:extent> </mods:part> </mods:relatedItem> <mods:location> <mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.68000</mods:url> </mods:location> <mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification> <mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.68000</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1860-0743-2-407</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="ZooBank">DC2EBA6293A141938ADC2A79F7D658B9</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="Pensoft-UUID">9446F0CE40A752B4897F7B7B71BBFD29</mods:identifier> </mods:mods> <treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="184132939" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:1D3B4025B7B955B799CC920C7B555FDF" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D3B4025B7B955B799CC920C7B555FDF" lastPageNumber="407" pageId="0" pageNumber="407"> <subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="407" type="nomenclature"> <paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="407"> <taxonomicName LSID="1D3B4025-B7B9-55B7-99CC-920C7B555FDF" authority="Ahl, 1931 a: 22." authorityName="Ahl" authorityYear="1931" class="Reptilia" family="Hyperoliidae" genus="Hyperolius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hyperolius pygmaeus" order="Anura" pageId="0" pageNumber="407" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmaeus">Hyperolius pygmaeus Ahl, 1931a: 22.</taxonomicName> </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="407" type="holotype"> <paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="407">Holotype.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="407"> ZMB 36102, <normalizedToken originalValue="“Tanga”">"Tanga"</normalizedToken> [Tanga Region, Tanzania], coll. Georg Martienssen. </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="407" type="present name"> <paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="407">Present name.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="407"> <taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Pfeffer" baseAuthorityYear="1893" class="Amphibia" family="Hyperoliidae" genus="Afrixalus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Afrixalus stuhlmanni" order="Anura" pageId="0" pageNumber="407" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="stuhlmanni"> <emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="407">Afrixalus stuhlmanni</emphasis> </taxonomicName> (Pfeffer, 1893). </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="407" type="remarks"> <paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="407">Remarks.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="407"> Drawing in <bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111625430-fm" author="Ahl, E" journalOrPublisher="Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin" pageId="0" pageNumber="407" refId="B9" refString="Ahl, E, 1931b. Amphibia, Anura III, Polypedatidae. In: Hesse R (Ed.) Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. 55. Lieferung. Walter de Gruyter & Co. Berlin und Leipzig, 477 pp. [+ (1-2)]. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111625430-fm" title="Amphibia, Anura III, Polypedatidae. In: Hesse R (Ed.) Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. 55. Lieferung. Walter de Gruyter & Co. Berlin und Leipzig, 477 pp. [+ (1 - 2)]." url="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111625430-fm" year="1931 b">Ahl (1931b</bibRefCitation> : 273, fig. 143). <taxonomicName authorityName="Ahl" authorityYear="1931" class="Reptilia" family="Hyperoliidae" genus="Hyperolius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hyperolius pygmaeus" order="Anura" pageId="0" pageNumber="407" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmaeus"> <emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="407">Hyperolius pygmaeus</emphasis> </taxonomicName> Ahl, 1931a, is a junior homonym of <taxonomicName authorityName="Ahl" authorityYear="1931" class="Reptilia" family="Hyperoliidae" genus="Hyperolius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hyperolius pygmaeus" order="Anura" pageId="0" pageNumber="407" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmaeus"> <emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="407">Hyperolius pygmaeus</emphasis> </taxonomicName> Meyer, 1875 (= <taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Meyer" baseAuthorityYear="1875" class="Amphibia" family="Pelodryadidae" genus="Litoria" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Litoria pygmaea" order="Anura" pageId="0" pageNumber="407" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmaea"> <emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="407">Litoria pygmaea</emphasis> </taxonomicName> ). </paragraph> <paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="407"> Between December 1896 and June 1899, the German planter Martienssen sent amphibians and reptiles from the German colony in East Africa to ZMB. The locality <normalizedToken originalValue="“Tanga”">"Tanga"</normalizedToken> as given by <bibRefCitation author="Ahl, E" journalOrPublisher="Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin" pageId="0" pageNumber="407" pagination="1 - 132" refId="B8" refString="Ahl, E, 1931a. Zur Systematik der afrikanischen Arten der Baumfroschgattung Hyperolius (Amph. Anur.). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 17 (1): 1 - 132" title="Zur Systematik der afrikanischen Arten der Baumfroschgattung Hyperolius (Amph. Anur.)." volume="17" year="1931 a">Ahl (1931a)</bibRefCitation> most likely refers to <normalizedToken originalValue="today’s">today's</normalizedToken> Tanga region. It is clear from <normalizedToken originalValue="Martienssen’s">Martienssen's</normalizedToken> correspondence with ZMB that the amphibians he sent to Berlin were collected, with few exceptions (e.g. Ukami), exclusively in <normalizedToken originalValue="“Magrotto”">"Magrotto"</normalizedToken> [plantation in southern part of Mlinga Mountains, East Usambara, Tanga Region] and "Plantation <normalizedToken originalValue="Schöller”">Schoeller"</normalizedToken> [Bondei County near Ngomeni, east of the Mlinga Mountains, ca. 25 km SW of Tanga town] (see <bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3793.1.8" author="Gvozdik, V" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="407" pagination="165 - 187" refId="B81" refString="Gvozdik, V, Tillack, F, Menegon, M, Loader, SP, 2014. The satus of Leptopelis barbouri Ahl, 1929 and eleven other nomina of the current tree-frog genus Leptopelis (Arthroleptidae) described from East Africa, with redescription of Leptopelis grandiceps Ahl, 1929. Zootaxa 3793 (1): 165 - 187, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3793.1.8" title="The satus of Leptopelis barbouri Ahl, 1929 and eleven other nomina of the current tree-frog genus Leptopelis (Arthroleptidae) described from East Africa, with redescription of Leptopelis grandiceps Ahl, 1929." url="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3793.1.8" volume="3793" year="2014"> <normalizedToken originalValue="Gvoždík">Gvozdik</normalizedToken> et al. 2014 </bibRefCitation> ). Martienssen also supported the African expedition to Kilimanjaro undertaken by Yngve <normalizedToken originalValue="Sjöstedt">Sjoestedt</normalizedToken> from 1905-1906 by providing porters ( <bibRefCitation author="Sjoestedt, Y" journalOrPublisher="Palmquist, Stockholm" pageId="0" pageNumber="407" publicationUrl="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1372178" refId="B201" refString="Sjoestedt, Y, 1910. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906, 1. Band, Abt. 1-7. P. Palmquist, Stockholm, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1372178" title="Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905 - 1906, 1. Band, Abt. 1 - 7. P." url="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1372178" year="1910"> <normalizedToken originalValue="Sjöstedt">Sjoestedt</normalizedToken> 1910 </bibRefCitation> : 3). The correspondence between Martienssen and the ZMB curators (especially Gustav Tornier), kept in the archives of the Historical Department at ZMB, reveals that <normalizedToken originalValue="“Laubfrösche”">"Laubfroesche"</normalizedToken> [Tree frogs, <taxonomicName authorityName="Rapp" authorityYear="1842" class="Reptilia" family="Hyperoliidae" genus="Hyperolius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hyperolius" order="Anura" pageId="0" pageNumber="407" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus"> <emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="407">Hyperolius</emphasis> </taxonomicName> spp. (s. l.)] sent by Martienssen to ZMB were all collected on the <normalizedToken originalValue="“Magrotto”">"Magrotto"</normalizedToken> plantation between 17 April and 18 May 1897. </paragraph> </subSubSection> </treatment> </document>