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
Author
Tillack, Frank
Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Author
Ruiter, Ronald de
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum, Hoeferlaan 4, 6816 SG Arnhem, The Netherlands
Author
Roedel, Mark-Oliver
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1666-195X
Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
mo.roedel@mfn-berlin.de
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Zoosystematics and Evolution
2021
2021-08-10
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2
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.68000
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.68000
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Hyperolius argus Peters, 1854: 628.
Syntypes.
ZMB 4807 (two specimens according to
Peters 1882b
and ZMB inventory catalogue),
"Boror"
[Companhia do Boror, Zambezia Province, Mozambique], coll. Wilhelm Carl Hartwig Peters.
Present name.
Hyperolius argus
Peters, 1854.
Remarks.
Peters (1882b
: 165) refers to two syntypes which he found in March 1846 in a bush at the edge of the forest near Boror. Depicted in
Peters (1882b
, pl. 22, fig. 6) and mentioned and depicted by
Tornier (1896
: 146, pl. 4, fig. 72 [= ZMB 4807]). Only one syntype could be located.
Hyperolius argus
see
Hyperolius flavoviridis
,
Hyperolius tettensis
.