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Cypselus niansae

Cypselus niansae

Reichenow, 1887

GBIF:212447794

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Remarks: In the original description only one specimen (no. 126) was given, so ZMB 49.331 is regarded as the holotype. It was inventoried in 1949 with the notice “ Typ ” [type specimen].
Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A., Bracker, Cordula (2023): Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa. Zootaxa 5334 (1): 1-84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5334.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5334.1.1
Holotype: ZMB 49.331 (Fischer no. 126), skin, female, collected at “ Kagehi ”, 16.11. [1885]. Type locality: “ Kagehi ” [Kayenzi, Mwanza Region, northern Tanzania] as the locality of the holotype.
Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A., Bracker, Cordula (2023): Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa. Zootaxa 5334 (1): 1-84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5334.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5334.1.1
Now: Apus niansae niansae (Reichenow, 1887). See Reichenow (1902 a: 379); but see also Peters (1940: 247).
Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A., Bracker, Cordula (2023): Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa. Zootaxa 5334 (1): 1-84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5334.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5334.1.1

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Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A., Bracker, Cordula (2023): Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa. Zootaxa 5334 (1): 1-84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5334.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5334.1.1

Abstract

Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848–1886) was an important German naturalist and ornithological collector in Africa. The extensive ornithological collections from his several expeditions were sent to at least two different museums (Zoological Museum Berlin and Zoological Museum Hamburg), and to a smaller extent, some private sales are assumed. Together with Anton Reichenow, Fischer described many species new to science, so the many types in the collections make them especially important. We located 616 bird specimens in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the Museum der Natur Hamburg along with a few further specimens in the collections of the Museum Heineanum Halberstadt, the Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden, The Natural History Museum-UK (Tring), the American Museum of Natural History, New York and the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. Among these, type specimens for 133 species and subspecies of birds were traced. For all of them, an update of the collecting localities with particular emphasis on some previously unknown locations is provided. A taxonomic update of the described species is given and a designation of lectotypes for the following four taxa was necessary: Francolinus Altumi G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884, Accipiter minullus tropicalis Reichenow, 1898, Hypochera ultramarina var. orientalis Reichenow, 1894 and Spinus citrinelloides frontalis Reichenow, 1904b.

Frahnert S, Turner D A, Bracker C, plazi (2023). Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6hu26z accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

CC0Published 8/18/2023View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
212447794
Dataset Key
86bd1537-578b-462b-ae18-c669bc6e0dce
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Backbone Key
11336361
Taxon ID
03DC9465E229FFD0AFF1F92B18F510DA.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026
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