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Hyperolius mariae Barbour and Loveridge, 1928

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hyperoliidae > Subfamily: Hyperoliinae > Genus: Hyperolius > Species: Hyperolius mariae

Rappia vermiculata Pfeffer, 1893, Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst., 10: 98. Syntypes: ZMH 352 (2 specimens), destroyed in WWII; ZMB 10988 is possibly a surviving syntype as implied by Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 438. Type locality: "Sansibar" (= Zanzibar), Tanzania. Primary junior homonym of Rappia vermiculata Peters, 1882. Synonymy with Hyperolius marmoratus by Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 438.

Rappia vermiculata — Tornier, 1896, in Möbius (ed.), Deutsch Ost-Afr., 3: 139.

Rappia densereticulatae Tornier, 1896, in Möbius (ed.), Deutsch Ost-Afr., 3: 140. Nomen nudum. Synonymy with Hyperolius vermiculatus by XXX.

Hyperolius mariae Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 217. Holotype: MCZ 13267, by original designation. Type locality: "near the mill dam at Derema, Usambara Mtns., Tanganyika Territory [= Tanzania]".

Hyperolius vermicularis Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 24. Replacement name for Rappia vermiculata Pfeffer, 1893, a secondary homonym of Hyperolius vermiculata Peters, 1882, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1882: 8.

Hyperolius melanophthalmus Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 68. Syntypes: ZMB (4 specimens) unnumbered, according to the original publication, these including ZMB 85670–72 (3 specimens) according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 427; including MCZ 17640 (on exchange from ZMB), according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 128, is a syntype. Type locality: "Sansibar" (= Zanzibar), Tanzania. Synonymy with Hyperolius mariae by Loveridge, 1936, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 79: 372; Parker, Moreau, and Pakenham, 1940, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 11, 5: 309-314. Junior synonym of Hyperolius marmoratus mariae according to Laurent, 1952 "1951", Ann. Soc. R. Zool. Belg., 82: 386. The description in Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 341, was published subsequently according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 427.

Hyperolius renschi Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 115. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered; now lost according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 427. Type locality: "Zansibar", Tanzania. Synonymy with Hyperolius mariae by Loveridge, 1936, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 79: 372; Parker, Moreau, and Pakenham, 1940, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 11, 5: 309-314. The description in Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 397, appeared subsequently according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 427.

Hyperolius rubripes Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 88. Syntypes: ZMB (2 specimens) unnumbered, according to the original publication, these being ZMB 36110 and 57530 according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 434; ZMB 36110 in error considered holotype by Laurent, 1961, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 64: 87. Type locality: "Kililana", Kenya. Placed in the synonymy of Hyperolius sansibaricus by Loveridge, 1936, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 79: 372. Considered a subspecies of Hyperolius marmoratus by Laurent, 1961, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 64: 87. The description in Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 361, subsequently according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 430. Synonymy by Wieczorek, Drewes, and Channing, 2001, Amphibia-Reptilia, 22: 159.

Hyperolius marmoratus mafianus Laurent, 1961, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 64: 71. Types: Unclear: in text Laurent refers to specimens from Mafia Island reported by Parker, 1936, a literature citation not mentioned in Laurent's Literature Cited. Type locality: "l'ile Mafia", Tanzania. Synonymy by Channing, 2022, Zootaxa, 5134: 328.

Hyperolius marmoratus mariae — Laurent, 1952 "1951", Ann. Soc. R. Zool. Belg., 82: 386.

Hyperolius marmoratus rubripes — Laurent, 1961, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 64: 87.

Hyperolius viridiflavus rubripes — Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 205.

Hyperolius viridiflavus bitaeniatus — Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 211.

Hyperolius marmoratus bitaeniatus — Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 224.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Coast of southern Kenya and northeastern Tanzania.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Kenya, Tanzania

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Hyperolius marmoratus by Wieczorek, Drewes, and Channing, 2000, J. Biogeograph., 27: 1235, where it had been placed by Laurent, 1952 "1951", Ann. Soc. R. Zool. Belg., 82: 386. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 168-169, provided an account, but did not include Dem. Rep. Congo or Zambia within the stated range. Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 427, discussed the intergradation of nominal Hyperolius renschi and Hyperolius mariae. See general discussion of the Hyperolius viridiflavus–parallelus–marginatus group by Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 206–228. Harper, Measey, Patrick, Menegon, and Vonesh, 2010, Field Guide Amph. E. Arc Mts. Tanzania and Kenya: 184–185, provided a brief account. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 396, regarded this nominal taxon as too insufficiently known to treat adequately in their field guide. Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 407–450, discussed briefly the types, their collectors and collections, and early literature of Hyperolius bitaeniatus, Hyperolius melanophthalmus, Hyperolius noblei, Hyperolius renschi, Hyperolius rubriceps, and Hyperolius udjidjiensis. Channing, 2022, Zootaxa, 5134: 301–354, discussed the systematics, reidentified a number of GenBank sequences, restricted the range by excluding a number of populations, provided a range map (mislabled in Fig. 9C as Hyperolius mariae), molecular tree, and a summary of the color patterns for all of the named taxa in the synonymy, and characterized the advertisement call. Dehling and Sinsch, 2023, Diversity, 15 (512): 66–67, specifically excluded this species from the fauna of Rwanda.

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