Megalixalus maculifer Ahl, 1924: 7.

Tillack, Frank, Ruiter, Ronald de & Roedel, Mark-Oliver, 2021, 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, Zoosystematics and Evolution 97 (2), pp. 407-450 : 407

Megalixalus maculifer Ahl, 1924: 7.

Holotype.

ZMB 26911, "Ganda Ali, Annia Galla" [south of Bia Woraba in the Ennia Galla county, East Harerge Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia], coll. Carl Viktor Heinrich Freiherr von Erlanger and Oskar Rudolph Neumann, 28.-29.V.1900.

Present name.

Kassina maculifer (Ahl, 1924).

Remarks.

From 1900 onwards, the ornithologists, mammalogists and explorers von Erlanger and Neumann undertook a two-year journey through Somaliland to the south of Ethiopia. They were accompanied by the physician and collector of botanical objects Dr. Hans Ellenbeck, the cartographer Johann Holtermüller and the taxidermist Carl Hilgert. From Zeila at the Gulf of Aden [Zeylac District, Awdal Region, Somaliland] they started their journey on 12 January 1900 and travelled via Djeldessa [Jaldessa, Sitti zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia] (3 March 1900), Harar (1 April 1900), Biar-Woraba [Bia-Woraba, East Harerge Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia] (23 May 1900), the Wabbi River [Webi Shebeli] (passage on 10 June 1900), to Addis Ababa (16 August 1900). During that journey they climbed Abu-el-Kassim [Abul Kasim, Arsi Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia] on 16 July 1900. From Addis Ababa Neumann went alone to Shoah [Shewa Kingdom, a region present day in Central Ethiopia] and southern Sudan, then returned to Cairo via Khartoum. Erlanger went on to Lake Turkana ( Neumann 1902a, b; Erlanger 1904; Kleinschmidt 1905; Kobelt 1905). During this expedition (map with the route in Neumann 1902b) he collected thousands of zoological objects (manly insects and vertebrates), which are stored in ZMB, SMF, NHMM, and the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum (now the Natural History Museum at Tring; Stresemann 1947; Hildebrandt 2004).