Halieus leucogaster Meyen, 1834a : 112

Mlíkovský, Jiří & Frahnert, Sylke, 2017, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected during F. J. F. Meyen’s circumnavigation in 1830 – 1832, Zootaxa 4250 (1), pp. 1-22 : 3

Halieus leucogaster Meyen, 1834a: 112 , pl. 22.

Now: Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis Staunton, 1796 . See Ogilvie-Grant (1898: 343). For the authorship of sinensis see Mlíkovský (2011b).

Holotype: ZMB 14227 ( Lichtenstein 1832, Nr. 80 sub “ Halieus ”), skin, collected by Meyen in “ October ” [= 25–27 October 1831; see below] in “ Manila ” [= Truro Shoal , South China Sea] (see below).

Type locality. Meyen (1834a) did not specify where he collected the holotype, but mentioned (p. 113) that “ Bei Gelegenheit eines sehr heftigen Sturms wurde dieser Vogel auf das Deck unsers [sic] Schiffes geworfen.” (“the bird was thrown on the deck of our ship during a heavy storm”). Lichtenstein (1832) imprecisely stated that the bird was collected in “ October ” at “ Manila ”. The Prinzess Louise encountered a heavy storm on 25–27 October 1831 ( Meyen 1835: 290, Berghaus 1842: 79–80), when it was north-west of Scarborough Reef [15.13°N, 117.77°E] in the area of Truro Shoal [16.32°N, 116.68°E] on its way from Manila, Philippines, to Guangzhou, China . We thus ascertain the type locality as the South China Sea at Truro Shoal.