Hyperolius poweri Loveridge, 1938
Hyperolius poweri Loveridge, 1938, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 51: 213. Holotype: MCZ 23110, by original designation. Type locality: "vicinity of the Umvoti River, near Stranger [= Stanger], [KwaZulu-]Natal, Union of South Africa".
English Names
Power's Reed Frog (Hyperolius poweri [no longer recognized] Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 173).
Distribution
Southeastern coast of South Africa; extreme northern Botswana and Zimbabwe north through East Africa and eastern Dem. Rep. Congo to southern Somalia and Ethiopia and thence west to Ivory Coast (distribution highly provisional).
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Hyperolius acuticeps by Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 353, where it had been considered by Channing, Moyer, and Burger, 2002, Afr. Zool., 37: 95. Bishop, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 136, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 350-353, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 240-241, provided accounts (as Hyperolus acuticeps in the sense of including Hyperolius poweri). See comments under Hyperolius acuticeps.
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