Hyperolius puncticulatus (Pfeffer, 1893)
Rappia puncticulata Pfeffer, 1893, Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst., 10: 99. Holotype: ZMH 157; destroyed in WWII, according to Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 186. Type locality: "Sansibar" (= Zanzibar), Tanzania. Given by Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 376 as "Zanzibar, behind the German Club House . . . now the Bwawani Plaza Hotel, about 8 km from Bububu".
Hyperolius puncticulatus — Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 219. Loveridge, 1953, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 110: 358.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Zanzibar I., Tanzania.
Comment
See comments under Hyperolius substriatus and Hyperolius parkeri. Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 376-380, discussed the identity of this species and concluded that it was one of the two Hyperolius parkeri-like species on the island of Zanzibar.
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