Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa
Author
Frahnert, Sylke
Author
Turner, Donald A.
Author
Bracker, Cordula
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-08-18
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Dendromus chrysurus suahelicus
Reichenow, 1902a: 175
.
Now
:
Campethera abingoni suahelica
(
Reichenow, 1902a
)
.
See
Peters (1948: 119)
.
Syntype
:
ZMB 2002.476
, skin, female, juvenile, collected at
Mandera
, 09.1881.
Syntype
:
ZMB 2002.477
(Fischer no.535), skin, female, collected at “Usaramo”, [08.]01.1882
.
Syntype
:
ZMB 50.59
(Stuhlmann no. 138), skin, male, collected by
F. Stuhlmann
at
Mbusini
,
31.08.1888
.
Syntype
(missing): Böhm no. 281, male, collected by
R
. Böhm at Kakoma,
21.02.1881
.
Syntype
(missing): Böhm no. 47, male, collected by
R
. Böhm at “Kangasi”, 08.08.[1880]
.
Syntype
(missing): Fischer no. 961, male, collected at “Gross-Aruscha”, 19.07.[1883].
Type locality
: “
Deutschostafrika
” [now
Tanzania
], from the original description as well as localities of the
syntypes
.
Remarks
: In the original description no type was chosen, nor were there inventory numbers for specimens. However
Reichenow (1902a)
mentions localities “Grossaruscha”, “
Mandera
”, “Usaramo”, “Kakoma”, “Kangasi” and “Mbusini” with collection month and collector’s names. Therefore, the
three specimens
available in the ZMB collection are regarded as
syntypes
. Others from the localities mentioned refer to missing Böhm and Fischer specimens, but were listed in more detail in
Schalow (1883)
and Fischer (1884). Problematically,
Reichenow (1902a)
listed for
D. chrysurus suahelicus
as well as for
Dendromus bennetti
(Smith)
the locality Kakoma (Böhm) with
Mar
and Nov as collecting months. On the other hand,
Schalow (1883)
only listed
Picus abingoni
(Smith)
and
Picus hemprichi
Ehrenberg
for Kakoma (Böhm), not
Dendromus
(
Picus
)
bennetti
. It is uncertain which of the missing specimens from Kakoma collected by Böhm in
Mar
and Nov belong to which species, and which Reichenow included in his description of
Dendromus chrysurus suahelicus
(1902a)
.