Hyperolius spatzi Ahl, 1931a: 123.

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

Hyperolius spatzi Ahl, 1931a: 123.

Lectotype.

ZMB 32602, "Bakel-Kidira (Oberes Senegalgebiet)" [Kidira town near Malian border, Bakel Department, Tambacounda Region, East Senegal], coll. Paul Wilhelm Heinrich Spatz.

Paralectotypes.

ZMB 74853-74876 (formerly part of ZMB 32602), same locality data as for the lectotype.

Present name.

Hyperolius spatzi Ahl, 1931.

Remarks.

Lectotype designation by Rödel et al. (2010: 185). Another paratype (MCZ A-17646) from “Bakel-Kidira”, coll. Spatz, was sent in exchange to MCZ in 1932 ( Barbour and Loveridge 1946: 131).

The German trader and zoologist Spatz carried out various hunting and collecting expeditions in the northern Sahara during which he also collected ethnological and prehistoric objects. In 1884 he travelled to Tunisia and Algeria for the first time. Further journeys to Tunisia were as follows: in spring 1891, together with Alexander Koenig and Koenig’s wife; in 1893 and from November 1896 to July 1898 together with Carlo von Erlanger; and from 1904 to 1906 together with Otto Eduard Graf von Zedlitz und Trützschler and Alfred Blanchet. In the early 1920s he travelled to Mauritania, to the lower Senegal River and the Spanish colony of Rio de Oro. The latter he visited again with the Berlin taxidermist Fritz Bock in spring 1926. On behalf of ZMB he made a collecting trip from Dakar to the lower Senegal River from February to July 1928, then accompanied by his son Richard ( Spatz 1926 1930; Schulz-Parthu 1997). It was probably on this journey that the holotype of Hyperolius spatzi was collected.