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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Turdus guttatus fischeri
Hellmayr, 1901: 54
.
Now
:
Geokichla guttata fischeri
(
Hellmayr, 1901
)
.
See
Deignan et al. (1964: 154)
;
Prigogine (1985)
.
Holotype
:
ZMH 8395
(Fischer no. 1005), skin, former mount, female, collected at Pangani, 21.08.[18]83.
Paratype
(missing):
ZMB 24272
(B 15682, Fischer no. 266), male, collected at Kipini, [
28.07.1878
]
.
Paratype
(missing): Fischer no. 265, female, collected at Kipini, [
28.05.1878
].
Type locality
:
Pangani
[Pangani River Valley,
Tanga Region
,
Tanzania
], the locality of the
holotype
.
Remarks
: In the original description ZMH 8395 was mentioned as type specimen with an inventory number referring to the
holotype
.
Hellmayr (1901)
examined ZMH 8395, which was available to him, but also included in the new species all Fischer specimens collected at Kipini on the basis of their measurements. Therefore, the other
two specimens
are regarded as
paratypes
.
Fischer & Reichenow (1879)
listed under the name
Turdus guttatus
two specimens
from Kipini (Fischer nos. 265, 266). Only one of them (now missing) was inventoried in the
Berlin
collection as ZMB 24272, while the whereabouts of no. 265 are also unknown, and there are no further Fischer specimens of this subspecies (Fischer 1884;
Reichenow 1887
).
Concerning the distribution
Hellmayr (1901)
wrote: “Unsere Form wurde bisher bloss von Kipini (
Formosa
Bai), dann in der Küstenregion zwischen Mombas und dem Tanafluss, sowie am Pangani beobachtet. ” (this form was only observed at Kipini (
Formosa
Bay), in the coastal region between
Mombasa
and the River
Tana
as well as at the River Pangani).