Barbatula simplex G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b: 180

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 : 20

Barbatula simplex G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b: 180 .

Now: Pogoniulus simplex G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1884b . See Peters (1948: 46).

Holotype: ZMB 27026 (B 18672, Fischer no. 1009), skin, male, collected at Pangani (River Valley?), [22.08.1883].

Type locality: “Massailand” (region inhabited by the Masai tribe) [ Kenya / Tanzania], from the original description, ascertained as Pangani ( River Valley ?) = Lower Pangani River Valley [Pangani, Tanga Region, Tanzania] as the locality of the holotype (Fischer 1884).

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen nor were inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one specimen and the locality “Massailand” were given. Therefore ZMB 27026 (no. 1009) is regarded as the holotype (see also Fischer 1884: 371). The very general information about the locus typicus in the description “Massailand” was ascertained as Pangani (River Valley?) for the locality of the holotype (Fischer 1884). Fischer collected the holotype in the Lower Pangani River Valley, but it is impossible to give an exact locality.