Charadrius venustus G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b: 178

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 : 15

Charadrius venustus G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b: 178 .

Now: Charadrius pallidus venustus G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884 . See Reichenow (1900c: 173); but see also Peters (1934: 250).

Syntype: ZMB 27030 (B 18687, Fischer no. 897), skin, former mount, male, collected in “Salzsumpf Massailand”, 01.07.[1883] .

Syntype: ZMB 27031 (B 18687, Fischer no. 898), skin, former mount, female, collected in “[Salzsumpf] Massailand”, [01.07.1883] .

Type locality: “ Massailand (Inneres Ost-Afrika)” [Kenya/Tanzania], from the original description, ascertained as the saline wetlands of Lake Natron (northern Tanzania) [= southeastern shore of Lake Natron, close to the Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, Arusha Region, Tanzania], the collecting locality of both syntypes.

Remarks: In the original description, no type was chosen, nor were inventory numbers for specimens given. Both sexes were described and measurements for more than one specimen were given. Two specimens collected by Fischer (nos. 897, 898) were given in Fischer (1884). Regarding the type locality in the description, all Fischer specimens from that region in the Berlin collection (ZMB 27030, ZMB 27031) are regarded as syntypes. ZMB 27030 was inventoried in 1884–1885 with the note “ex originale”, and the collector’s number 898 was added to ZMB 27031 based on its collecting data.