Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyperolius papyri Werner, 1908 "1907", Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 116: 1903. Holotype: NHMW 14847, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 28, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 33. Type locality: " Khor Attar und Mongalla . . . Gondokoro"; locality associated with holotype is Gondoroko, South Sudan. Synonymy with Hyperolius nasutus by Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 259; Schiøtz, 1967, Spolia Zool. Mus. Haun., 25: 139. Placed incertae sedis pending resolution whether this is a distinctive taxon or synonymous with Hyperolius nasutus, Hyperolius acuticeps, or Hyperolius viridis. See Channing, Moyer, and Burger, 2002, Afr. Zool., 37: 97. In the Hyperolius nasutus group of Amiet, 2005, Rev. Suisse Zool., 112: 271-310.

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