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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Turdirostris leptorhyncha
Reichenow, 1879: 155
.
Now
:
Acrocephalus gracilirostris leptorhynchus
(Reichenow, 1879)
.
See
White (1960);
Mayr et al. (1986: 75)
.
Holotype
(missing):
ZMB 24269
(B 15996, Fischer no. 405), male, collected at
Tchara
,
Tana River
, [
09.12.1878
].
Type locality
:
Tschara
[Tschara,
Tana River County
,
Kenya
], from the original description as well as locality of the
holotype
.
Remarks
: In the original description, no type was chosen and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one individual and the locality “Tschara, Africa orientalis” were given.
Fischer & Reichenow (1879: 347)
listed
one specimen
(no. 405) for this species with the same measurements as in the description. As such no. 405 (ZMB 24269) is the
holotype
, but it is missing. A further specimen of this species (Fischer no. 136) in the
Berlin
collection (ZMB 2000.32543) was collected at Kagehi on the
18.11.1885
but has no type status, as it was collected after publication of the description.
Tschara was very close to modern-day Kipini in the
Tana River
Delta area
.