Megalixalus Stuhlmanni Pfeffer, 1893: 99.

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

Megalixalus Stuhlmanni Pfeffer, 1893: 99.

Syntypes.

ZMB 10986 and ZMB 11015, ? “Quillimane” [Quelimane, Angoche District, Zambezia Province, Mozambique], coll. Franz Ludwig Stuhlmann.

Present name.

Afrixalus stuhlmanni (Pfeffer, 1893).

Remarks.

Pfeffer (1893: 100) mentions 26 specimens from "Sansibar, Insel" [Zanzibar Island], collected by Stuhlmann on 6.VIII.1888. Ahl (1930b: 96) listed under " Megalixalus stuhlmanni " two specimens from "Quillimane, Stuhlmann leg." and denotes one of them as type: "No. 1" [= ZMB 10986] "Type der Art"; the specimen "No. 2" is inventoried under ZMB 11015. These two specimens are part of a collection of amphibians and reptiles ( ZMB 10983-11015), which was donated to ZMB in 1893 by ZMH in agreement with Stuhlmann. This donation contains “Doubletten” from the Stuhlmann collection, which was described by Pfeffer (1893) (see also Kirchhof et al. 2016: 181).

However, the location “Quillimane” as mentioned in the ZMB inventory catalogue does not correspond to the type locality given by Pfeffer (1893). It is unclear whether this is a transmission error of the locality information for the ZMB specimens, and “Quillimane” instead of “Sansibar” is correct. At least for the Berlin syntype of Rappia vermiculata , the locality information has been mixed up, as shown by Tornier (1896: 141, see below).

Megalixalus stuhlmanni and its type material is not mentioned in the herpetological type catalogues of ZMH ( Hallermann 1998, 2006). During a renewed search, no further type material could be located (Jakob Hallermann in litt. 29 July 2020).