Centropus Fischeri Reichenow, 1887: 57

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 : 13

Centropus Fischeri Reichenow, 1887: 57 .

Now: Centropus monachus fischeri Reichenow, 1887 . See Peters (1940: 74); but see also Reichenow (1902a: 64).

Syntype: ZMB 50.78 (Fischer no. 244), skin, female, juvenile, collected at “Niakatschi”, 05.03.[1886] .

Syntype: ZMB 2002.310 (Fischer no. 227), skin, male, juvenile, collected at Kiniamongo, 30.01.[1886] .

Type locality: “ Niakatschi” and “Kiniamongo” as well as “Nassa am Speke Golf” [Nyashimo at Speke Gulf, Simiyu Region, Tanzania] are given in the original description. The type locality was ascertained as “Niakatschi” [Nyakach Bay, Kisumu County, Kenya] and Kiniamongo [Kiniamongo, Mara Region, Tanzania], the localities of the syntypes.

Remarks: In the original description, no type was chosen nor were inventory numbers for specimens given, but at least two individuals were cited in the description with the collecting data. As the collecting data of ZMB 50.78 and ZMB 2002.310 are identical to the data in the species description, these specimens are regarded as syntypes. ZMB 50.78 was inventoried in 1950 with the notice “Typ”. “Nassa am Speke Golf” was included in the description as a locality of observation ( Reichenow 1887).