Hyperolius rubripes Ahl, 1931a: 88.

Tillack, Frank, Ruiter, Ronald de & Roedel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, A type catalogue of the reed frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Hyperoliidae) in the collection of the Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin (ZMB) with comments on historical collectors and expeditions, Zoosystematics and Evolution 97 (2), pp. 407-450 : 407

Hyperolius rubripes Ahl, 1931a: 88.

Lectotype.

ZMB 36110, “Kililana” [opposite Manda Island, Lamu District, Coast Province, Kenya], coll. Clemens Andreas Denhard, 1896.

Paralectotype.

ZMB 57530 (formerly part of ZMB 36110), same collecting data as for the lectotype.

Present name.

Hyperolius mariae Barbour & Loveridge, 1928.

Remarks.

Lectotype designation by implication by Laurent (1961: 87) who considered ZMB 36110 (adult male) as “Holotype”. In 1878, together with his brother Gustav and Dr. med. Gustav Adolf Fischer, the German engineer and colonial economist C. A. Denhard undertook a research expedition to explore the Tana River (Kenya). One year later he explored the coastal area from Mombasa (Kenya) to Pangani (Tanzania). In 1885 an expedition led him to Lamu Island (Kenya). In 1885 he acquired land from the Sultan of Witu on the mainland coast southwest of Lamu, on which he established plantations and later (1886) ceded parts of it to the German Witu Society. In accordance with the Helgoland-Zanzibar Treaty, the “Wituland”, which was under German protectorate from 1885 onwards, was declared a British protectorate on 18 June 1890 ( Schnee 1920a).