Bioacoustics of Hyperolius marginatus

Sequences were available from Angola , Zambia , Zimbabwe , Malawi and western Tanzania ( Fig. 6 ). The minimum uncorrected p- distances from other clades were 2.4–5.3% ( Table 2 ). The sequences were reported in GenBank as Hyperolius marginatus , H. viridiflavus aposematicus , H. v. marginatus , H. v. melanoleucus , H. v. pyrrhodictyon , H. v. rhodesianus , H. pyrrhodictyon , and H. parallelus alborufus . Although there are no sequences available from the type locality of Macanga in northern Mozambique , the clade occupies the area where Schitz (1999) mapped H. marginatus . The conservative approach of assigning this clade to H. marginatus thus seems prudent. The type localities of taxa considered junior synonyms of H. marginatus are listed in Table 3 . The most common pattern element in the descriptions of the types included in H. marginatus is a pale lateral band (58%), followed by a pale vertebral stripe (42%) and dorsal marbling (33%). The percentages are not additive, as the elements may be shared. The advertisement call of a specimen from Lusaka , Zambia consists of a series of clicks ( Schiøtz 1975 , (no voucher) as H. paralellus melanoleucus ) with an emphasised frequency of 2150 Hz. A call from Livingstone, Zambia is similar, with an emphasised frequency of 2000 Hz ( Schiøtz 1975 , (no voucher) as H. p. aposematicus ). A call from Kachalola, Zambia has an emphasised frequency of 2100 Hz ( Schiøtz 1975 , (no voucher) as H. marginatus ). The call is identical to those from Kitwe, Zambia (as H. melanoleucus ), Solwezi, Zambia (as H. alborufus ) and Nkotakota, Malawi (as H. marginatus ) ( Pickersgill 2007 ). Calls in Kasanka National Park (no vouchers) are brief ( 0.07 s ) at an emphasised frequency of 2497 Hz.