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Hyperolius picturatus Peters, 1875
Hyperolius picturatus Peters, 1875, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1875: 206. Syntypes: ZMB 3063 (5 specimens), according to Laurent, 1961, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 64: 79. Type locality: "Boutry" (= mouth of River Butre), Ghana.
Rappia picturata — Matschie, 1893, Mitt. Forschungsreis. Gelehrten Deutsch Schutzgeb., 6: 215; Tornier, 1896, in Möbius (ed.), Deutsch Ost-Afr., 3: 153.
Hyperolius picturatus — Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 252, 263, 327.
Hyperolius festivus Barbour and Loveridge, 1927, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 10: 17. Holotype: MCZ 12018, by original designation. Type locality: "Firestone Plantation No. 3, Du River, Liberia". Synonymy by Laurent, 1958, Mem. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, 53: 275.
Hyperolius viridiflavus picturatus — Laurent, 1952 "1951", Ann. Soc. R. Zool. Belg., 82: 395.
English Names
Tanzania Reed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 67).
Variable Montane Sedge Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 73).
Painted Reed Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 184).
Distribution
Eastern Sierra Leone, Liberia, and southern Guinea to southwestern Ghana in forest.
Comment
Probably composed of two cryptic species of which the western form may be conspecific with Hyperolius baumanni and Hyperolius occidentalis, according to Schiøtz, 1967, Spolia Zool. Mus. Haun., 25: 192, and Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 113. Rödel and Bangoura, 2004, Tropical Zool., 17: 213-214, discussed this and suggested that evidence available did not support the existence of two species. See also comments under Hyperolius baumanni and Hyperolius occidentalis. Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 227-229, provided an account and noted a number of misidentifications in the literature. Rödel and Branch, 2002, Salamandra, 38: 258, reported Hyperolius cf. picturatus from Ivory Coast. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 113–115, provided a brief account and map. Rödel and Glos, 2019, Zoosyst. Evol., 95: 23, reported this species from the Krahn-Bassa Proposed Protected Area in southeastern Liberia and the Foya Proposed Protected Area in western Liberia. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 184–185, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.
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