Hyperolius dorsalis Peters, 1875: 206, pl. 1, fig. 2.

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 dorsalis Peters, 1875: 206, pl. 1, fig. 2.

Syntypes.

ZMB 4488, “Boutry” [Butre (Bootry), Ahanta West District, Western Region, Ghana], don. Hermann Schlegel (Museum Leyden), and ZMB 8850 “Victoria” [Limbe, Fako Division, Southwest Region, Cameroon], coll. Ernst Richard Reinhold Baumann.

Present name.

Afrixalus dorsalis (Peters, 1875).

Remarks.

Peters’ (1875) description was based on an unknown number of syntypes. He mentioned several specimens found in a pond in Victoria of which we could locate only one specimen. Mertens (1938) restricted the type locality to “Boutry”.