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Hyperolius rwandae Dehling, Sinsch, Rodel, and Channing in Channing, Hillers, Lötters, Rödel, Schick, Conradie, Rödder, Mercurio, Wagner, Dehling, Du Preez, Kielgast, and Burger, 2013
Hyperolius rwandae Dehling, Sinsch, Rödel, and Channing in Channing, Hillers, Lötters, Rödel, Schick, Conradie, Rödder, Mercurio, Wagner, Dehling, Du Preez, Kielgast, and Burger, 2013, Zootaxa, 3620: 337. Holotype: ZMB 77221, by original designation. Type locality: "from a pond in farmland on the eastern outskirts of Butare, Huye District, South Province, Rwanda (2° 37′ 10.79″ S, 29° 45′ 08.45″ E)".
English Names
Rwanda Long Reed Frog (original publication).
Rwanda Reed Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 178).
Distribution
Known from four localities in southern, central, eastern, and northern Rwanda, as well as adjacent Burundi, Dem. Rep. Congo (Kivu Province), and Tanzania.
Comment
In the Hyperolius nasutus species group according to the original publication. Greenbaum, Chifundera, and Luhumyo, 2016, Herpetol. Rev., 47: 419, provided a record from Lwiro, South Kivu Province, Dem. Rep. Congo, 1750 m elevation. 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 nasutus group. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 178–179, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.
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