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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Poeocephalus massaicus
G.A.
Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b: 179
.
Now
:
Poicephalus gulielmi massaicus
(G.A.
Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b
)
.
See
Reichenow (1902a: 10)
:
Peters (1937: 226)
.
Syntype
:
ZMB 27027
(B 18673, Fischer no. 949), skin, male, collected at “Aruscha, Maeru-Berg”, 16.7.[18]83
.
Syntype
:
ZMH 8312
(Fischer no. 920), skin, former mount, male, collected at “Gross Aruscha, Maeru-Berg”, 13.7.[18]83
.
Type locality
: “
Gross-Aruscha am Märuberg” [
Mt Meru
,
Arusha Region
,
Tanzania
], from the original description and localities of the
syntypes
.
Remarks
: In the original description, no type was chosen, nor were inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one and the locality “Gross-Aruscha am Märuberg” were given. In Fischer (1884)
two specimens
were listed (Fischer nos. 949, 920). The measurements given belong to no. 949, but as the locality and date of both match the description, Fischer regarded both as belonging to the newly described species (Fischer 1884). Furthermore,
Poecephalus
massaicus
was written on the original collector’s label of ZMH 8312. Therefore, both specimens are regarded as
syntypes
. ZMH 8312 was not mentioned as type of this species in
Bolau (1898)
.