Hyperolius bobirensis Schiøtz, 1967

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

Hyperolius bobirensis Schiøtz, 1967, Spolia Zool. Mus. Haun., 25: 236. Holotype: ZMUC R074633, by original designation. Type locality: "a small temporary pond near the forestry resthouse in Bobiri Forest Reserve, Ghana".

Common Names

Bobiri Reed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 66).

Distribution

Known from the Bobiri Forest Reserve, southwestern Ghana, and from the Ankasa Conservation Area (Nini-Suhiens National Park and Ankasa Forest Reserve), also in Ghana.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ghana

Endemic: Ghana

Comment

See comments by Rödel, Gil, Agyei, Leaché, Diaz, Fujita, and Ernst, 2005, Salamandra, 41: 118. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 283. Hillers, Ofori-Boateng, Segniagbeto, Agyei, and Rödel, 2009, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 85: 127–141, noted the absence of this species at its type locality. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 119–120, provided a brief account. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 186–187, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Closely related to Hyperolius concolor according to 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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