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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Apalis chariessa
Reichenow, 1879: 114
.
Now
:
Apalis chariessa chariessa
Reichenow, 1879
.
See
White (1962a: 701)
;
Mayr et al. (1986: 160)
.
Syntype
:
ZMB 24249
(B 15697, Fischer no. 310), male, skin, collected at Mitole,
13.09.1878
.
Syntype
:
ZMB 24250
(B 15697, Fischer no. 400), female, skin, collected at Mitole,
19.11.1878
.
Type locality
:
Mitole
[Mitole,
Tana River County
,
Kenya
], from the original description as well as locality of the
syntypes
.
Remarks
: In the original description, no type was chosen and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for more than one individual and the locality “Mitole” were given.
Fischer & Reichenow (1879: 354)
listed
two specimens
from Mitole for this species, so both are
syntypes
. The loss of forest habitat along the lower
Tana
suggests that this nominate form may now be globally extinct; a specimen was collected in 1961 (https://ebird.org/checklist/S117362807).