Gymnoglaux Krugii Gundlach

Frahnert, Sylke, Roman, Rafaela Aguilera, Eckhoff, Pascal & Wiley, James W., 2015, Juan Cristobal Gundlach's collections of Puerto Rican birds with special regard to types, Zoosystematics and Evolution 91 (2), pp. 177-189 : 185

Taxon classification Animalia Strigiformes Strigidae

Gymnoglaux Krugii Gundlach

Gymnoglaux Krugii Gundlach 1874: 310, 315.

Now.

Megascops nudipes nudipes ( Gundlach 1874): 310, 315. See Gundlach (1878b: 164/165), Cory (1889: 192).

Type series.

Not specified by Gundlach (1874). There are two specimens noted in the inventory catalogue of the ZMB. Therefore these are syntypes.

Syntype.

ZMB 21596, skin, male, collected by J. C. Gundlach in Portorico [Puerto Rico] [in the period 06.-12.1873].

Syntype.

ZMB 21597, skin, female, collected by J. C. Gundlach in Portorico [Puerto Rico] [in the period 06.-12.1873].

Type locality.

Portorico [today Puerto Rico], no further details available.

Remarks.

Gundlach discovered this new species and named it in honor of his patron Carl Wilhelm Leopold Krug (1833-1898), who served as the German and British Vice-consul in Mayagüez. In his 1878(b) publication, Gundlach synonymized it with " Gymnoglaux nudipes ( Strix ) Daud".

There are further specimens of this species from the Gundlach collection in the ZMB (ZMB 22654, 22655 [missing], 25223 [collected by Stahl], 25224 [collected by Stahl]), the IES (IES 2584 and without number [missing, fide Valdes Ragués (1914)]) and the AMNH (AMNH 44792-44795) which were (most probable for the IES and two of the AMNH specimens) collected during Gundlach’s second expedition to Puerto Rico or even later by Agustin Stahl (1842-1917). Thus, due to missing exact information we do not regard any of these specimens as types.