Hyperolius fimbriolatus Buchholz & Peters in Peters, 1876: 121.

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 fimbriolatus Buchholz & Peters in Peters, 1876: 121.

Syntypes.

ZMB 8830 and ZMB 65178 (formerly part of ZMB 8830), "Limbareni am Ogowe" [ Lambaréné on the river Ogooué (or Ogowe), Moyen-Ogooué Province, Gabon], coll. Reinhold Wilhelm Buchholz.

Present name.

Hyperolius olivaceus Peters, 1876.

Remarks.

Depicted in Tornier (1896, pl. 4, fig. 100 and 101) and partly redrawn in Ahl (1931b: 332, fig. 205).

The name Rappia fimbriata Tornier (1896: 153, pl. 4, figs 100, 101) is categorized as nomen inquirendum, "Name(s) unassigned to a living or extinct population" by Frost (2021). Tornier (1896) attributed the authorship of this name to "B e P" which refer to Buchholz and Peters instead of “Duméril and Bibron" as claimed by Frost (2021). Tornier (l.c.) mentioned the type material as collected at "Gowe Limbareni", a writing error for "Limbareni am Ogowe [river]" ( Peters 1876). However, Buchholz and Peters never together described a reed frog with the specific epithet " Rappia fimbriata ". Tornier’s name Rappia fimbriata does not meet the requirements of Art. 33.2 of the ‘Code’ (ICZN 1999) for an “emendation”. We therefore consider Rappia fimbriata Tornier, 1896 as an incorrect subsequent spelling of the specific epithet fimbriolata Buchholz & Peters in Peters, 1876.