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Peters, 1875
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in alcohol:
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violet-grey, a dark brown stripe from the nostrils, over the eye, to the flank, where it becomes many flecks against a pale background.
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this band, white with many small black flecks.
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. NHMW 16862, “Poli bei Garua, Nordkamerun” (Poli near Garua,
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. Above pale grey with fine black speckling on the head and sides of females. Juveniles uniform pale, or with two to four pale longitudinal stripes.
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<taxonomicName id="4AC4B4DBFFF62707659BFACD83899555" authority="Laurent, 1951" authorityName="Laurent" authorityYear="1951" box="[151,657,1374,1401]" class="Amphibia" family="Hyperoliidae" genus="Hyperolius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="33" pageNumber="334" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="viridiflavus" subSpecies="angeli">
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. MNHNP 1921.34b, “Gribingui, Oubang-Chari”
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. The
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clade does not extend far west into the
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is here assigned to
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<taxonomicName id="4AC4B4DBFFF627076440FA3580CC95ED" authorityName="Peters" authorityYear="1875" box="[332,468,1447,1473]" class="Amphibia" family="Hyperoliidae" genus="Hyperolius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="33" pageNumber="334" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="nitidulus">H. nitidulus</taxonomicName>
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Dorsal colour uniform, with fine black speckling on side of head, tibia and lower leg, which may not be visible in some specimens.
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. MHNG 1038.39 “Ngaoundér”,
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. Golden-yellow above, with a dark brown stripe from the side of the snout over the eye to the vent with a black border, and a similar dark line along the tibia.
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lists the localities of the synonyms.
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Sequences were available from
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,
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,
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, and
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(
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). The minimum uncorrected
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distances from other clades were 3.37.2% (
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).
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was removed from the synonymy of
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and elevated to a full species.
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Rödel
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. (2010)
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showed that
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was genetically different from
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,
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and confirmed its status, following earlier proposals (Wieczorek
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. 2001,
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,
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, and
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). The 16S rRNA sequences from
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Rödel
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. (2010)
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were used to identify this clade. The localities of taxa regarded as junior synonyms of
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are listed in Table 8. The
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locality of
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Peters, 1875
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is
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,
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. Although there were no sequences available from
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or anywhere else in
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, this clade consists of sequences that were identified in the field as
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<emphasis id="BFB0134AFFF62707601BF8E9848497B9" box="[1303,1436,1915,1941]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">H. nitidulus</emphasis>
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or
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<emphasis id="BFB0134AFFF6270765BBF80D80DB9795" box="[183,451,1951,1977]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">H. viridiflavus nitidulus</emphasis>
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, and that occurs west and east of
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. Only two clades (
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and
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) are known from West Africa.
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Portik
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recognised two sub-groups, one in
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and the other in
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. Although the
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sample is monophyletic, and has about a 2% difference from the
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samples, it is not reciprocally monophyletic from the samples from
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,
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,
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and
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.
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The most common pattern elements in the descriptions of the
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included in
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are a dark lateral band (50%), and a uniform back (50%). The percentages are not additive, as the pattern elements may be shared.
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The advertisement call (no voucher) is described as a single, pure, metallic and very loud tone. Mean call length is
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, at a mean frequency of 2638 Hz (
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Rödel
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).
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