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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Lybius leucocephalus usukumae
Neumann, 1908: 46
.
Now
:
Lybius leucocephalus lynesi
C.H.B.
Grant & Mackworth-Praed, 1938
.
See
del
Hoyo & Collar (2014)
; but see also
Peters (1948: 58)
;
Short & Horne (2002)
.
Holotype
:
ZMB 50.29
(Fischer no. 189), skin, male, collected at “Kagehi”, [
06.12.1885
].
Paratype
:
ZMB 29077
(Emin Pasha no. 687), skin, male, collected by
Emin Pasha
at “Bussissi”, [
16.10.1890
]
.
Type locality
: “
countries on the south and south-east shore of Lake Victoria”, from the original description and “Kagehi” [
Kayenzi
,
Mwanza Region
,
Tanzania
], the locality of the
holotype
.
Remarks
: In the original description the
holotype
was mentioned as the “type” and the collecting date is provided. ZMB 29077 collected by Emin Pasha was designated as a
paratype
by Neumann, who compared it with all specimens available at the ZMB, and its locality is included in the type locality.
Neumann (1908)
considered the type locality as “countries on the south and south-east shore of Lake Victoria”. Simultaneously, he defined “Kagehi” [Kayenzi,
Mwanza Region
,
Tanzania
] as type locality with the designation of a
holotype
. The form
usukumae
was regarded as a synonym of
Lybius leucocephalus albicauda
(Shelley) (
White 1965: 254
)
, but
Short & Horne (2002)
considered it an intergrade between
albicauda
and
lynesi
(see
Dickinson & Remsen 2013
: footnote p. 330).