Hyperolius tuberculatus (Mocquard, 1897)

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Hyperolius tuberculatus (Mocquard, 1897)

Rappia tuberculata Mocquard, 1897 . MNHNP 96.570 “Lambaréné”, Gabon ( Table 3 ). Back and exposed parts of limbs light reddish-brown back with many fine tubercles. A brown stripe is sometimes present from the eye to the snout tip. Another mark of the same colour reaches the eye from the top of the head, while another starts at the lower edge of the eye, running obliquely to the angle of the jaw.

This clade consists of 30 sequences from Gabon, Bioko Island ( Equatorial Guinea) and Cameroon ( Fig. 9B ). All sequences were reported in GenBank as Hyperolius tuberculatus . The sequence reported in Veith et al. (2009) as Hyperolius tuberculatus Complex A forms part of this species. The uncorrected p- distances from other clades were 2.1–6.2% ( Table 2 ).

The pattern element in the description of the type of H. tuberculatus consists of various stripes on the head.

The advertisement call (no vouchers) is a high-pitched long series of notes ( Bosch et al. 2000, from Río Muni, Equatorial Guinea), with an emphasised frequency of 3228 Hz, and a mean note rate of 11.6 s- 1. A call from Adjap, Cameroon (no voucher) is a series of double pulsed notes with a note rate of 6 s-1, and an emphasised frequency of 3000 Hz ( Amiet & Goutte 2017).

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FIGURE 9. Localities of sequences (black circles), type localities (stars) and location of junior synonyms of Hyperolius bangwae (A), H. tuberculatus (B), and H. glandicolor (C). Locality codes are explained in Table 3.