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
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Alseonax murina
G.A.
Fischer & Reichenow, 1884a: 54
.
Now
:
Muscicapa adusta murina
(G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884)
.
See
Mayr et al. (1986: 328)
.
Syntype
:
ZMB 27438
(B 18662, Fischer no. 930), skin, former mount, female, collected at “Gross-Aruscha”, 15.07.[18]83
.
Syntype
:
ZMH 6911
(Fischer no. 925), skin, former mount, female, collected at “Gross-Aruscha”, [
14.07.1883
]
.
Type locality
: “
Maeru Berg (Massai)” [
Mt Meru
,
Arusha Region
,
Tanzania
], 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
one specimen
and the locality “Maeru-Berg, Massai” were given. Fischer (1884) listed
two specimens
(nos. 925, 930) from “Gross-Aruscha” for this species. As both specimens from “Gross Aruscha” were collected near Mount
Meru
(no specimens of this species are traceable from Mount
Meru
itself), ZMH 6911 and ZMB 27438 are regarded as
syntypes
. ZMH 6911 was also listed as the type in
Bolau (1898)
. ZMB 27438 was inventoried in
March 1884
with the note “ex originale”.