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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Trachyphonus suahelicus
Reichenow, 1887: 60
.
Now
:
Trachyphonus vaillantii suahelicus
(
Reichenow, 1887
)
.
See
Peters (1948: 61)
.
Holotype
:
ZMB 50.19
(Fischer no. 1), skin, female, collected in “Usegua”,
25.08.1885
.
Paratype
:
ZMB 30418
(Böhm no. 609), skin, male, collected by
R
. Böhm, at Kakoma, 22.08.[1881].
Paratype
:
ZMB 2000.32621
(Fischer no. 508), skin, male, possibly collected for him by a local collector in the
Nguru Mountains
, [Jul]
.
Type locality
:
“
Usegua” [
Useguha
country,
Tanga Region
,
Tanzania
], the locality of the
holotype
.
Remarks
: In the original description, the
holotype
was mentioned with these collecting dates. It was also mentioned that a specimen collected by one of Fischer’s local collectors was from the “Nguru-Berge” and identified as
Trachyphonus caffer
(see Fischer 1884: 372) as well as a male collected by Böhm at Kakoma, also belong to the newly described species
T. suahelicus
.