Totanus brevipes Vieillot, 1816

Jansen, Justin J. F. J., 2017, Rene Mauge's ornithological collections from Kupang Bay, West-Timor, Indonesia, August-November 1801, with special regard to type-specimens, Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2), pp. 467-492 : 471

Totanus brevipes Vieillot

Totanus brevipes Vieillot, 1816, Nouv. Dict. Nat. éd. 6: 410 (no locality).

Tringa brevipes (Vieillot, 1816). See Cuvier 1829: 521 (note 2), Lesson 1831: 552, Pucheran 1851: 370-371, Peters 1931: 270 and Voisin and Voisin 2012: 45. - Now.

Type materials.

HOLOTYPE: MNHN-ZO-2012-155 [MNHN A.C. 13377], adult in summer-plumage, near Kupang Bay, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, West-Timor (10°11'0"S; 123°35'0"E), between 22 August and 13 November 1801, by René Maugé.

Pedestal underside: (Sticker) Asie Aust. Cte le Natte / Expedit. du Capitne Baudin / an 11 / Timor p. Mgé / T. brevipes Cuv. (type). Pedestal label: Le Chevalier aux pieds courts / Tringa brevipes . Cuv. / de Timor: par Maugé.

Comments.

Vieillot referred to a mounted bird. The MNHN specimen was catalogued around 1854 (MNHN Laboratory, ZMO-GalOis 4) and represented the sole specimen of this species until 1856 when a specimen collected by Constantin de Sabir in the Amur region was added to the collection. The holotype also represents the only surviving / located syntype of Totanus pedestris Lesson 1831 (see below). The type locality is lacking and clarified as: West-Timor, near Kupang Bay (article 76a.2.A (ICZN 1999)). Vieillot named this species Totanus brevipes or 'short foot’ ( Jobling 2017).