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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Agapornis Fischeri
Reichenow, 1887: 54
.
Now
:
Agapornis fischeri
Reichenow, 1887
.
See
Reichenow (1902a
, 23);
Peters (1937: 255)
.
Syntype
:
ZMB 28179
(B 20117, Fischer no. 63), skin, female, collected near Ussure, 11.10.[1885]
.
Syntype
:
AMNH
SKIN 622323
(Fischer no. 69), skin, female, collected near Ussure, [
18.10.1885
]
.
Syntype
:
AMNH
SKIN 622324
(Fischer no. 1537), skin, female, collected near Ussure, [
18.10.1885
]
.
Type locality
: “
bei Ussure” [near
Ussure
,
Singida Region
,
Tanzania
], from the original description and locality of all
syntypes
.
Remarks
: In the original description no type was chosen, nor were inventory numbers for specimens given, but it was stated that
three females
collected near Ussure belong to the type series. Thus, all three are regarded as
syntypes
, only one of which is at the ZMB, the other
two specimens
being at the AMNH. AMNH SKIN 622324 has a wrong collector’s number (Fischer nos. 66, 67, 68, 70 or 71 are possible field numbers). These specimens were not mentioned as types in
Greenway (1978)
.