Hyperolius parkeri Loveridge, 1933
Hyperolius parkeri Loveridge, 1933, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 74: 410. Holotype: MCZ 13365, by original designation. Type locality: "Mogoni swamp, south of Dar-es-Salaam, Usaramo, Tanganyika [= Tanzania]". Synonymy by Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 337.
Hyperolius parkeri rovumae Loveridge, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 410. Holotype: MCZ 25260, by original designation. Type locality: "Kitaya, Rovuma River, Lindi Province, southeastern Tanganyika Territory [= Tanzania]".
Hyperolius parkeri parkeri — Loveridge, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 409.
English Names
Parker's Reed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 67; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 258).
Brown-or-Green Sedge Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 73 [as Hyperolius parkeri]).
Distribution
Coastal savannas of Kenya and Tanzania, including Zanzibar, to central coastal Mozambique.
Comment
Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 172, and Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 93, suggested that this species is very different from other members of the genus, perhaps warranting a different genus. See accounts by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 169-170, Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 173-174, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 258-259. Prior to the revision by Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 337, suggested the possibility that Hyperolius parkeri and Hyperolius puncticulatus might be conspecific, but on page 376 he distinguished them on the basis of call structure, morphology, and geography.
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