Hyperolius castaneus, Ahl, 1931, Ahl, 1931

Nečas, Tadeáš, Kielgast, Jos, Chinemerem, Ikechukwu G., Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Dolinay, Matej & Gvoždík, Václav, 2024, The phylogenetic position of Hyperolius sankuruensis (Anura: Hyperoliidae) reveals biogeographical affinity between the central Congo and West Africa, and illuminates the taxonomy of Hyperolius concolor, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202, pp. 1-19 : 14-15

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HYPEROLIUS CASTANEUS View in CoL GROUP

Hyperolius castaneus group ofDehling and Sinsch (2019); Group D of Ernst et al. (2021).

Contents (based on genetic data): H. castaneus Ahl, 1931 ; H. constellatus Laurent, 1951 ; H. cystocandicans Richards and SchiØtz 1977 ; H. discodactylus Ahl, 1931 ; H. frontalis Laurent 1950 ; H. jackie Dehling 2012 ; H. lateralis Laurent 1940 ( Greenbaum et al. 2013, Dehling and Sinsch 2019, Portik et al. 2019, Ernst et al. 2021).

Area of occurrence: Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, western Tanzania, and western Kenya. Hyperolius cystocandicans is known from central Kenya.

Other potential members: Hyperolius atrigularis Laurent 1941 and H. kibarae Laurent, 1957 are possibly related to this group ( Laurent 1957, SchiØtz 1999). Laurent (1951), based on morphological data, found H. leleupi Laurent, 1951 to be closely related to H. castaneus (and H. atrigularis ). Laurent (1972) suggested that the single specimen of H. xenorhinus Laurent, 1972 from Virunga NP, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo may be an aberrant individual of H. discodactylus . SchiØtz (1999) suggested that further investigation of H. frontalis , H. diaphanus Laurent, 1972 , H. chrysogaster Laurent 1950 , H. leucotaenius Laurent 1950 , and H. xenorhinus might show them conspecific.