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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Corythaix Reichenowi
G.A. Fischer, 1880a: 174
.
Now
:
Tauraco livingstonii reichenowi
(G.A. Fischer, 1880)
.
See
Reichenow (1902a: 53)
; but see also
Peters (1940: 4)
.
Holotype
: ZMB 24919 (B 16557), skin, former mount, male, collected in “Nguru-Berge”, [between 1877 and 1880].
Type locality
: “
Nguru-Berge, tropisches Ost-Afrika” [Nguru Mts,
Morogoro Region
,
Tanzania
], from the original description.
It
is also the locality of the
holotype
.
Remarks
: In the original description no type was chosen, and no inventory numbers for specimens were provided, but measurements for
one specimen
and the locality “Nguru-Berge” were given. Therefore ZMB 24919, which lacks a collector’s number, is regarded as the
holotype
, having been inventoried in 1880 with the note “ex originale”. As
Fischer & Reichenow (1880a)
listed only
one specimen
of
Corythaix livingstoni
(no. 417) from “Nguru Berge” (Nguru Mountains), this may be that specimen.
Fischer & Reichenow (1880a)
gave no collecting date, but there are specimens from that region only from
May–Jun 1879
. ZMB 24919 was believed collected by a local collector for Fischer.