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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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5334.1.1
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Corythaix Hartlaubi
G.A.
Fischer & Reichenow, 1884a: 52
.
Now
:
Tauraco hartlaubi
(G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884)
.
See
Reichenow (1902a: 42)
;
Peters (1940: 7)
.
Syntype
:
ZMB 27399
(B 18666, Fischer no. 958), skin, former mount, female, collected at “Aruscha”, [
18.7.1883
]
.
Syntype
:
ZMH 6875
(Fischer no. 959), skin, former mount, female, collected at “Gross Aruscha”, 18.7.[18]83
.
Syntype
(missing): Fischer no. 939, male, collected at “Gross Aruscha”, [
15.7.1883
].
Type locality
: “Am Fusse des Maeru -Berg (Massai)” (at the foot of Mount Maeru (Massai)), from the original description (see
Peters 1940: 7
). We ascertain the type locality as Arusha [Arusha, Arusha Region, Tanzania], the locality of the
syntypes
.
Remarks
: In the original description, no type was chosen nor were inventory numbers for specimens given, but measurements for
one specimen
and the locality “am Fusse des Maeru-Berg (Massai)” were mentioned. The measurements given agree with specimen no. 959 (Fischer 1884). As all the above-listed specimens were collected at the same time, fit the locus typicus and were identified as that species in Fischer (1884), they are regarded as
syntypes
. ZMB 27399 was inventoried in
Mar
1884
with the note “ex originale”. ZMH 6875 was also mentioned as type for this species in
Bolau (1898)
. The whereabouts of specimen no. 939 are unknown. This species’ name honors the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub (1814–1900).