Type specimens of Primates (Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Author
Turni, Hendrik
0009-0008-4324-0510
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany. & [current address] Heinlenstrasse 16, 72072 Tübingen, Germany.
turni@feldbiologie.de
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-12-03
5543
2
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5543.2.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5543.2.1
1175-5326
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Otolicnus pusillus
Peters, 1876
Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu
Berlin
, p. 473
Current valid name:
Galagoides demidoff
(Fischer, 1806)
Holotype
:
ZMB
4770
,
male
, juvenile, skull and skin in alcohol;
Dongila
,
Gabon
; collected by
Buchholz
, donated by Reichenow,
June 1873
.
Comment: A further specimen in the General catalog—ZMB 2717—was labeled as type after Peters' time. According to the catalog entry, ZMB 2717 was from West Africa, lived in the Zoologischer Garten
Berlin
, collector and date were unknown. Peters registered that specimen as "
Otolicnus peli
or
Otolicnus demidoffi
"
[
sic
]. Nevertheless, Peters used only the male specimen from Dongila, collected by Buchholz for description of
Otolicnus pusillus
. ZMB 2717 seems unlikely to be any kind of type. Finally, Schwarz (1931, p. 62) identified the specimen ZMB 4770 as the
holotype
of
Otolicnus pusillus
Peters, 1876
.