Trachyphonus Böhmi G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b: 179–180

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), pp. 1-84 : 19

Trachyphonus Böhmi G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b: 179–180 .

Now: Trachyphonus darnaudii boehmi (G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b) . See Peters (1948:62).

Syntype: ZMB 2000.32620 , skin, male, collected by a local collector for Fischer at “Barawa”, [11.1881] .

Syntype: ZMH 8269 (Fischer no. 740), skin, former mount, male, collected at Arusha , 26.03.[18]83.

Syntype (missing): (Fischer no. 599), skin, male, collected in Pare, [03.03.1883].

Syntype (missing): (Fischer no. 981), skin, male, collected in Pare, [03.08.1883].

Syntype (missing): skin, collected by R. Böhm in “Uniamwesi” .

Syntype (missing): skin, collected (possibly by J.M. Hildebrandt) in “Ukamba”.

Type locality: “Ost-Afrika zwischen 4° s.Br. und 0°” [ East Africa between 4°S and 0°: “Pare Gebirge” [South Pare Mts., Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania], Arusha [Arusha, Arusha Region, Tanzania], “Ukamba” [Ukambani, Makueni County/Kitui County/Machakos County, Kenya] and “Barawa” [Baraawe, Lower Shabeelle Region, Somalia], from the original description.

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen nor were inventory numbers for specimens provided, but the following sites were given: “Pare Gebirge”, Arusha, “Ukamba” and “Barawa”. Fischer (1884) listed three specimens (nos. 599, 740, 981) as well as a specimen from “Barawa”, specimens collected in “Ukamba” (possibly by Hildebrandt) and from “Uniamwesi” (collected by Böhm). Only one Fischer specimen at the ZMB and one at the ZMH could be traced. The whereabouts of the other specimens are unknown. ZMB 2000.32620 was collected for Fischer ( Fischer 1885a). ZMH 8269 had been mentioned as the type specimen for this species in Bolau (1898). Later Zedlitz (1915) cited ZMB 2000.32620 as “the type” and restricted the terra typica to “Barawa, S. Somaliland”, as this was the only specimen of the original description that he found in the ZMB collection. According to the ICZN (1999) this cannot be accepted as a lectotype designation, as he did not select the specimen from other syntypes. Zedlitz (1915: 16) incorrectly listed “no. 24012” for that specimen. Indeed, number B 24012 is written on the label, but it does not exist in the B-catalogue. The species was named in honour of Dr. Richard Böhm (1854–1884), an important collector and ornithologist in Tanzania, who tragically died of fever at an early age.