Corythaix Hartlaubi G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884a: 52

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

Corythaix Hartlaubi G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884a: 52 .

Now: Tauraco hartlaubi (G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884) . See Reichenow (1902a: 42); Peters (1940: 7).

Syntype: ZMB 27399 (B 18666, Fischer no. 958), skin, former mount, female, collected at “Aruscha”, [18.7.1883] .

Syntype: ZMH 6875 (Fischer no. 959), skin, former mount, female, collected at “Gross Aruscha”, 18.7.[18]83 .

Syntype (missing): Fischer no. 939, male, collected at “Gross Aruscha”, [15.7.1883].

Type locality: “Am Fusse des Maeru -Berg (Massai)” (at the foot of Mount Maeru (Massai)), from the original description (see Peters 1940: 7). We ascertain the type locality as Arusha [Arusha, Arusha Region, Tanzania], the locality of the syntypes.

Remarks: In the original description, no type was chosen nor were inventory numbers for specimens given, but measurements for one specimen and the locality “am Fusse des Maeru-Berg (Massai)” were mentioned. The measurements given agree with specimen no. 959 (Fischer 1884). As all the above-listed specimens were collected at the same time, fit the locus typicus and were identified as that species in Fischer (1884), they are regarded as syntypes. ZMB 27399 was inventoried in Mar 1884 with the note “ex originale”. ZMH 6875 was also mentioned as type for this species in Bolau (1898). The whereabouts of specimen no. 939 are unknown. This species’ name honors the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub (1814–1900).