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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Hyperolius lateralis Laurent, 1940

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

Hyperolius lateralis Laurent, 1940, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 1. Holotype: MRAC 38902, by original designation. Type locality: "N'Gesho (près des Lacs Mokoto)", Dem. Rep. Congo.

Hyperolius lateralis pleurospilus Laurent, 1947, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 23: 4. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, according to the original publication; MRAC 55667 according to Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 8. Type locality: "Forêt a l'ouest de la piste de Mwenda à Katuka, Secteur «Munsenene». Parc National Albert (Partie Nord)", Kivu, Dem. Rep. Congo.

Hyperolius pleurospilus — Laurent, 1950, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933–1935), 64: 43.

Hyperolius lateralis cyaneops Laurent, 1950, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 44: 8. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, by original designation. Type locality: "Kiharo (Alt. 1.200 m.), Territoire de Rutana, Urundi".

Hyperolius lateralis bururiensis Laurent, 1950, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 44: 8. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, by original designation. Type locality: "Bururi (Alt. 1.850-1.950 m.), Urundi".

Hyperolius lateralis lateralis — Laurent, 1951, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 44: 373.

Hyperolius lateralis guibei Laurent, 1951, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 44: 373. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, according to the original publication. Type locality: "Cyumba, 1.900-1.950 m., Terr. de Biumba, Ruanda [= Rwanda]".

Hyperolius lateralis acanthochromus Laurent, 1951, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 44: 374. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, according to the original publication. Type locality: "Mugera, 1.450 m., Terr. de Ruyigi, Urundi", Burundi.

Hyperolius lateralis capnodogaster Laurent, 1951, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 44: 373. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, according to the original publication. Type locality: "Marais de la Tshizanie, Kinazi, 1.350 m, Terr. de Muhinga, Urundi", Burundi.

Hyperolius lateralis kochi Laurent, 1951, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 44: 375. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, according to the original publication. Type locality: "Itula, 650 m., Terr. de Chabaunda, Kivu", eastern Dem. Rep. Congo.

Hyperolius lateralis subolivaceus Laurent, 1952, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 46: 277. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, according to the original publication. Type locality: "Marais de Kasha, Lemera, alt. 1. 550 m., Terr. d'Uvira, Kivu", Dem. Rep. Congo.

Hyperolius lateralis bogerti Laurent, 1952, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 46: 277. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, according to the original publication. Type locality: "Remera, lac Luhondo, 1. 770 m., Terr. de Ruhengeri, Ruanda [= Rwanda]".

Hyperolius lateralis pulcherrimus Laurent, 1952, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 46: 278. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, according to the original publication. Type locality: "Mrais de la Rusuma, 2. 100 m., Terr. de Ruhengeri, Ruanda [= Rwanda]".

English Names

Secteur Munsenene Reed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 67).

Side-striped Reed Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 166).

Mottle-sided Reed Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 166 [alternative name]).

Distribution

Northwestern Tanzania through Burundi and Rwanda to north-central Dem. Rep. Congo and southern Uganda to western Kenya at high elevations.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

Comment

: 128–130, doubted the diagnosability of the previously defined subspecies, and Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 161, formally rejected them. See brief account of Hyperolius lateralis pleurospilus by Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 50–53. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 161–162, Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 166–167, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 365–366, provided accounts. Penner and Rödel, 2007, in Butynski and McCullough (eds.), RAP Bull. Biol. Assessment, 46: 37–41, provided a record for north-central Dem. Rep. Congo. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 213, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Dehling and Sinsch, 2019, Zool. Anz., 280: 65–77, reported on the evolution of larval and adult morphospace in the Central African Albertine Rift, including this species which they considered to be in the Hyperolius castaneus group. Spawls, Wasonga, and Drewes, 2019, Amph. Kenya: 22, provided a range map for Kenya, photograph, and brief characterization. Mali, Banda, Chifundera, Badjedjea, Sebe, Lokasola, Ewango, Tungaluna, and Akaibe, 2019, Am. J. Zool., 2: 38–43, reported the species from the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 206–207, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Dehling and Sinsch, 2023, Diversity, 15 (512): 1–81, discussed the range, identification, natural history, advertisement call, and conservation status in Rwanda.

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