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Hyperolius bicolor Ahl, 1931
Hyperolius bicolor Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 129. Syntypes: ZMB unnumbered, according to the original publication; lost according to Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 208, and Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 441, who noted that the description by Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 414, was not the earlier publication. Type locality: "Farenda Bango, Loanda", Angola. The description in Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 129, appeared a few weeks later according to unpublished notes by A. Loveridge (fide R. Laurent).
English Names
Two-colored Reed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 66).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Farenda Bango, Loanda, Angola).
Geographics occurrence
Natural resident: Angola
Endemic to the political unit: Angola
Comment
Probably a synonym of Hyperolius marmoratus insignis Bocage, 1867 (Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 208). Junior secondary homonym of Hyperolius bicolor (Gray, 1842) (= Litoria bicolor).Because the only specimen, the holotype, is lost the taxonomic status will be difficult to assess according to Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 96, who provided a map for Angola and 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. Not addressed by Portik, Bell, Blackburn, Bauer, Barratt, Branch, Burger, Channing, Colston, Conradie, Dehling, Drewes, Ernst, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Harvey, Hillers, Hirschfeld, Jongsma, Kielgast, Kouete, Lawson, Leaché, Loader, Lötters, van der Meijden, Menegon, Müller, Nagy, Ofori-Boateng, Ohler, Papenfuss, Rößler, Sinsch, Rödel, Veith, Vindum, Zassi-Boulou, and McGuire, 2019, Syst. Biol., 68: 859–875.
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