Trachyphonus suahelicus Reichenow, 1887: 60

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 : 19

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scientific name	Trachyphonus suahelicus Reichenow, 1887: 60
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Trachyphonus suahelicus Reichenow, 1887: 60 .

Now: Trachyphonus vaillantii suahelicus ( Reichenow, 1887) . See Peters (1948: 61).

Holotype: ZMB 50.19 View Materials (Fischer no. 1), skin, female, collected in “Usegua”, 25.08.1885.

Paratype: ZMB 30418 View Materials (Böhm no. 609), skin, male, collected by R. Böhm, at Kakoma, 22.08.[1881].

Paratype: ZMB 2000.32621 View Materials (Fischer no. 508), skin, male, possibly collected for him by a local collector in the Nguru Mountains , [Jul] .

Type locality: “ Usegua” [ Useguha country, Tanga Region, Tanzania], the locality of the holotype .

Remarks: In the original description, the holotype was mentioned with these collecting dates. It was also mentioned that a specimen collected by one of Fischer’s local collectors was from the “Nguru-Berge” and identified as Trachyphonus caffer (see Fischer 1884: 372) as well as a male collected by Böhm at Kakoma, also belong to the newly described species T. suahelicus .