Hyperolius argus Peters, 1854: 628.

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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.68000

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scientific name

Hyperolius argus Peters, 1854: 628.
status

 

Hyperolius argus Peters, 1854: 628.

Syntypes.

ZMB 4807 (two specimens according to Peters 1882b and ZMB inventory catalogue), “Boror” [Companhia do Boror, Zambezia Province, Mozambique], coll. Wilhelm Carl Hartwig Peters.

Present name.

Hyperolius argus Peters, 1854.

Remarks.

Peters (1882b: 165) refers to two syntypes which he found in March 1846 in a bush at the edge of the forest near Boror. Depicted in Peters (1882b, pl. 22, fig. 6) and mentioned and depicted by Tornier (1896: 146, pl. 4, fig. 72 [= ZMB 4807]). Only one syntype could be located.

Hyperolius argus

see Hyperolius flavoviridis , Hyperolius tettensis .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Anura

Family

Hyperoliidae

Genus

Hyperolius