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GBIF·5217739speciesAnimalia1 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderAnura
  5. ›familyHyperoliidae
  6. ›genusHyperolius
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IUCN DD · Data deficient

Tornier's Reed Frog

Hyperolius tornieri Ahl, 1931

Also calledrákosnička Tornierova (ces) · Тростнянка Торнира (rus)

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Hyperolius tornieri Ahl 1931

Hyperolius tornieri Ahl, 1931a: 45. Holotype. ZMB 85833, "Ukami (Deutsch-Ost-Afrika)" [Udzungwa Mountains,Tanzania], coll. Georg Martienssen. Present name. Hyperolius tornieri Ahl, 1931. Remarks. Drawing in Ahl (1931b: 305, fig. 179). The holotype of H. tornieri was sent by Martienssen in April 1898 to ZMB. For Martienssen’s activities in East Africa, locality information and collecting dates, see remarks on H. pygmaeus, as well as Gvoždík et al. (2014).

A type catalogue of the reed frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Hyperoliidae) in the collection of the Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin (ZMB) with comments on historical collectors and expeditions

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5217739.