Batis molitor littoralis Neumann, 1907a: 356

Frahnert, Sylke, Louette, Michel & Eckhoff, Pascal, 2021, Type specimens of birds of the genus Batis (Aves: Platysteiridae) at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Zootaxa 5052 (2), pp. 249-260 : 256-257

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.2.5

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9C0D1455-5E80-4D9A-BE86-7C73F05B0A3E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5578990

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EB1A42-265F-FFEE-FF1E-F9DF1C5FFCF9

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Plazi

scientific name

Batis molitor littoralis Neumann, 1907a: 356
status

 

Batis molitor littoralis Neumann, 1907a: 356

Now: Batis soror ( Reichenow, 1903). View in CoL See Mayr et al. (1986: 382).

Holotype: ZMB 24759 ( B 15694, Fischer , no. 162), skin, former mount, female, collected by G. A. Fischer on Sansibar, 29.03.76 [1878, error on the museum label as Fischer arrived in Zanzibar in 1877 for the first time].

Paratype: ZMB 23536 ( B 15041, Fischer , no. 83) , mount, female, collected by G. A. Fischer at Mombassa , 26.06.[18]77.

Paratype: ZMB 2000.64515 View Materials (Stuhlmann, no. 272), skin, male, collected by F. Stuhlmann on Sansibar, 03.11.1888 .

Possible Paratype (missing): SMNS 10965 About SMNS female, collected by E. Steudel at Bagamojo, Central Ostafrika, 1893 .

Excluded Paratype ( B. molitor puella ): ZMB 2000.64599 View Materials ( B 345 , Röhl, no. 822), skin, male, collected by K. Röhl at Mlalo, [1904‒1906] .

Excluded Paratype ( B. molitor puella ): ZMB 2000.64600 View Materials ( B 345 , Röhl, no. 551), skin, female, collected by K. Röhl at Mlalo, [1904‒1906] .

Excluded Paratype ( B. molitor puella ): ZMB 2000.64602 View Materials ( B 345 , Röhl, no. 551), skin, male, collected by K. Röhl at Mlalo , [1904‒1906].

Type locality: “ Sansibar und … die gegenüberliegende Küste ” [ Zanzibar and the coast of Tanzania next to Zanzibar, Tanzania], The type locality is ascertained as Zanzibar [ Zanzibar, Tanzania] regarding the locality of the holotype (see Mayr et al. 1986) .

Remarks: In the description ZMB 24759 was chosen as the type specimen and is therefore the holotype. The specimen is characterized by its collecting data given in the description. In summary, there were at least six specimens (characterized by their collecting data) given as studied material. Therefore, these specimens (excluding the holotype) should be regarded as paratypes. Five of them could be traced in the collection in Berlin. The specimen that Neumann had seen at the museum in Stuttgart was inventoried in the SMNS as Batis molitor but is missing today and has been since at least the 1970s (according to the museum inventory). The three specimens (ZMB 2000.64599, ZMB 2000.64600, and ZMB 2000.64602) mentioned by Neumann (1907a) as having been collected by Karl Röhl in Wilhelmsthal (Usambara) [Mlalo/Lushoto, Tanga, Tanzania] arrived as part of a shipment of more than 500 specimens in Berlin in April 1906. They have now been determined as Batis molitor puella and are thus removed from the list of possible paratypes of B. m. littoralis. Neumann (1907a) gave: “ Sansibar und … die gegenüberliegende Küste ” ( Zanzibar and the coast of Tanzania next to Zanzibar [ Tanzania]) as type locality. The type locality of the holotype of Batis molitor littoralis Neumann, 1907a was ascertained as Zanzibar ( Tanzania) (see Mayr et al. 1986).

ZMB

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)

B

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet

G

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève

A

Harvard University - Arnold Arboretum

F

Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department

E

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Platysteiridae

Genus

Batis

Loc

Batis molitor littoralis Neumann, 1907a: 356

Frahnert, Sylke, Louette, Michel & Eckhoff, Pascal 2021
2021
Loc

Batis molitor littoralis

Neumann, O. 1907: 356
1907
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