Hyperolius

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Hyperoliidae
Genus: Hyperolius
Species (135): H. acuticephalus – H. acuticeps – H. acutirostris – H. ademetzi – H. adspersus – H. albofrenatus – H. argus – H. atrigularis – H. balfouri – H. baumanni – H. benguellensis – H. bicolor – H. bobirensis – H. bocagei – H. bolifambae – H. bopeleti – H. brachiofasciatus – H. camerunensis – H. castaneus – H. chelaensis – H. chlorosteus – H. chrysogaster – H. cinereus – H. cinnamomeoventris – H. concolor – H. cystocandicans – H. diaphanus – H. dintelmanni – H. discodactylus – H. endjami – H. fasciatus – H. ferreirai – H. ferrugineus – H. frontalis – H. fuscigula – H. fusciventris – H. ghesquieri – H. glandicolor – H. gularis – H. guttulatus – H. horstockii – H. houyi – H. howelli – H. hutsebauti – H. igbettensis – H. inornatus – H. jackie – H. kachalolae – H. kibarae – H. kihangensis – H. kivuensis – H. kuligae – H. lamottei – H. langi – H. lateralis – H. laticeps – H. laurenti – H. leleupi – H. leucotaenius – H. lucani – H. maestus – H. major – H. marginatus – H. mariae – H. marmoratus – H. minutissimus – H. mitchelli – H. molleri – H. montanus – H. mosaicus – H. nasicus – H. nasutus – H. nienokouensis – H. nimbae – H. nitidulus – H. obscurus – H. occidentalis – H. ocellatus – H. parallelus – H. pardalis – H. parkeri – H. phantasticus – H. pickersgilli – H. picturatus – H. pictus – H. platyceps – H. polli – H. polystictus – H. poweri – H. protchei – H. pseudargus – H. puncticulatus – H. punctulatus – H. pusillus – H. pustulifer – H. pyrrhodictyon – H. quadratomaculatus – H. quinquevittatus – H. raveni – H. reesi – H. rhizophilus – H. rhodesianus – H. riggenbachi – H. robustus – H. rubrovermiculatus – H. sankuruensis – H. schoutedeni – H. seabrai – H. semidiscus – H. sheldricki – H. soror – H. spatzi – H. spinigularis – H. steindachneri – H. stenodactylus – H. stictus – H. substriatus – H. swynnertoni – H. sylvaticus – H. tannerorum – H. thomensis – H. thoracotuberculatus – H. tornieri – H. torrentis – H. tuberculatus – H. tuberilinguis – H. veithi – H. vilhenai – H. viridiflavus – H. viridigulosus – H. viridis – H. watsonae – H. wermuthi – H. xenorhinus – H. zonatus

Name

Hyperolius Rapp, 1842: 289

Type species: Hyla horstocki Schlegel, 1837, by monotypy.

Synonyms

Eucnemis Tschudi, 1838
Hyperolius Rapp, 1842
Epipole Gistel, 1848
Euchnemis — Bianconi, 1849
Crumenifera Cope, 1862
Rappia Günther, 1865
Cruminifera — Hoffmann, 1878
Nesionixalus Perret, 1976

References

Primary references

Rapp, W. von. 1842. Neue Batrachier. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8: 289–291. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Schick, S. et al. 2010. New species of reed frog from the Congo basin with discussion of paraphyly in Cinnamon-belly reed frogs. Zootaxa 2501: 23–36. Preview
Dehling, J.M. 2012. An African glass frog: a new Hyperolius species (Anura: Hyperoliidae) from Nyungwe National Park, southern Rwanda. Zootaxa 3391(1): 52–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3391.1.4 Reference page.
Channing, A., Hillers, A., Lötters, S., Rödel, M.-O., Schick, S., Conradie, W., Rödder, D., Mercurio, V., Wagner, P., Dehling, J.M., Du Preez, L.H., Kielgast, J. & Burger, M. 2013. Taxonomy of the super-cryptic Hyperolius nasutus group of long reed frogs of Africa (Anura: Hyperoliidae), with descriptions of six new species. Zootaxa 3620(3): 301–350. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.1 Reference page.
Conradie, W.; Branch, W.R.; Tolley, K.A. 2013: Fifty shades of grey: giving colour to the poorly known Angolan ashy reed frog (Hyperoliidae: Hyperolius cinereus), with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 3635(3): 201–223. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3635.3.1 Reference page.
Lehr, E., Dehling, J.M., Greenbaum, E. & Sinsch, U. 2015. Embryogenesis and tadpole description of Hyperolius castaneus Ahl, 1931 and H. jackie Dehling, 2012 (Anura, Hyperoliidae) from montane bog pools. ZooKeys 546: 125–152. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.546.6044 Reference page.
Conradie, W., Verburgt, L., Portik, D.M., Ohler, A., Bwong, B.A. & Lawson, L.P. 2018. A new Reed Frog (Hyperoliidae: Hyperolius) from coastal northeastern Mozambique. Zootaxa 4379(2): 177–198. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.2.2 Reference page.

Links

Amphibian Species of the World 5.1 Hyperolius access date 31 May 2008

Vernacular names

English: African Reed Frogs