Hyperolius granulosus Peters, 1867: 891, footnote.

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 granulosus Peters, 1867: 891, footnote.

Syntypes.

ZMB 4811 and ZMB 75652 (formerly part of ZMB 4811), “Mossambique”, coll. Wilhelm Carl Hartwig Peters.

Present name.

Hyperolius marmoratus Rapp, 1842.

Remarks.

Peters (1882b: 162) specified the locality for the two syntypes as "Capanga am Flüsschen Mutizi östlich von Tette" [Capanga, Maravia District, Tete Province, Mozambique] where he collected on August 8, 1845. One of the specimens is depicted in Peters (1882b, pl. 22, fig. 3).

The name Rappia granulata Tornier (1896: 151) is categorized as nomen inquirendum, "Name(s) unassigned to a living or extinct population" by Frost (2021) who placed the type locality “Tette” mistakenly in Tanzania. Tornier (1896) attributed the authorship of this name to Peters and mentioned the type specimens by number (ZMB 4811). However, Peters never described a reed frog with the specific epithet " Rappia granulata ". Tornier’s name Rappia granulata does not meet the requirements of Art. 33.2 of the ‘Code’ (ICZN 1999) for an “emendation”. We therefore consider Rappia granulata Tornier, 1896 as an incorrect subsequent spelling of the specific epithet Hyperolius granulosus Peters, 1867.