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
407
450
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 pulchromarmoratus Ahl, 1931a: 92.
Holotype.
ZMB 77751, "Britisch Ostafrika" [Kenya], coll. Richard Fritz Paul
Huebner
[later Huebner].
Present name.
Hyperolius glandicolor
Peters, 1878.
Remarks.
Drawing in
Ahl (1931b
: 367, fig. 242). Huebner worked from 1894 to 1913 as a merchant, banker, farmer and administrator and from 1901 to 1903 as Municipal Commissioner of Nairobi in (British) East Africa. He was active in Zanzibar (1894-1896), Mombasa (1896-1899), Nairobi (1899-1905), Kibwezi (1905-1908, together with G. R. O. Scheffler), and Voi (1908-1913), and undertook a journey from Mombasa to Kampala from June to November 1899. In 1913 he travelled to Germany for a convalescent stay because of health problems. However, his already planned return to Kenya was thwarted by the beginning of the First World War. In his spare time he was engaged in nature observations and collected interesting zoological objects, which he sent to ZMB (
Sieberg 1998
).