Hyperolius spinosus Buchholz & Peters in Peters, 1875: 208, pl. 1, fig. 3.

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 spinosus Buchholz & Peters in Peters, 1875: 208, pl. 1, fig. 3.

Syntypes.

ZMB 8359 and ZMB 59353-59355 (formerly part of ZMB 8359), “Cameruns” [Douala, Region Littoral, Cameroon], coll. Georg Anton Eugen Reichenow, don. Reinhold Wilhelm Buchholz (Fig. 9 ).

Present name.

Acanthixalus spinosus (Buchholz & Peters, 1875).

Remarks.

Depicted in in Nieden (1910b: 58, fig. 124), copied by Ahl (1931b: 446, fig. 310).

Type locality corrected to “Douala” by Frétey et al. (2014); for further information see also remarks on Hyperolis guttatus . Herrmann (1989: 13) reported two additional syntypes without inventory numbers in the collection of the Zoologisches Museum Greifswald (ZMG) from “Bonjongo” [Southwest Region, Cameroon], coll. Buchholz. However, although the collector is identical, the locality of the two ZMG specimens does not correspond to the type locality “Cameruns” [= part of the present Douala, see above] given by Peters (1875: 209), and thus the ZMG specimens should not be regarded as syntypes.

Figures

Figure 9. Syntype of Hyperolius spinosus Buchholz & Peters in Peters, 1875, ZMB 59354 from " Cameruns ", coll. Buchholz.