Gallinula angulata Sundevall, 1850

Dean, W. Richard J., Åhlander, Erik & Johansson, Ulf S., 2022, Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa, Zootaxa 5134 (4), pp. 521-560 : 526

Gallinula angulata Sundevall 1850: 110 .

VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Hab. in Caffraria inferiore ” .

CURRENT STATUS: Gallinula angulata Sundevall, 1850 ; Rallidae ( Dickinson & Remsen 2013: 161) .

TYPE MATERIAL: In the original type description Sundevall gave information about an adult male and a juvenile specimen. According to Sundevall’s acquisition catalogue, the original type series must have consisted of at least nine specimens. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 107) referred to NRM 569826 [7890] as “type”, which we treat here as a lectotype designation of an adult male, collected 23 March 1841 at uMlazi River. The eight paralectotypes are: NRM 90108136 [7895], an adult female collected 6 April 1841 at uMlazi River; NRM 554403 [7892], a juvenile male collected 9 April 1841 at uMlazi River; NRM 901081 [7891], an adult male collected 27 January 1842 at Apies River; NRM 554404 [7893], a pullus (not sexed) collected 14 February 1842 at Apies River; RMNH. AVES.229709 [7888], an adult male collected 29 March 1841 at uMlazi River; and RMNH. AVES.229710 [7896], a female collected 22 April 1841 at uMlazi River, both sent on exchange to Leiden in 1850; and a male collected 24 March 1841 at uMlazi River and a female collected 22 April 1841 at uMlazi River, both sent on exchange to Berlin in 1853 (but no longer found in the ZMB collection).

VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: uMlazi River , KwaZulu-Natal .

COMMENTS: Date and place are confirmed by journal entries. Wahlberg collected at the mouth of the uMlazi River, Durban, from 11 March to 6 May 1841.