Dendromus chrysurus suahelicus Reichenow, 1902a: 175

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 : 22

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Dendromus chrysurus suahelicus Reichenow, 1902a: 175 .

Now: Campethera abingoni suahelica ( Reichenow, 1902a) . See Peters (1948: 119).

Syntype: ZMB 2002.476 View Materials , skin, female, juvenile, collected at Mandera , 09.1881.

Syntype: ZMB 2002.477 View Materials (Fischer no.535), skin, female, collected at “Usaramo”, [08.]01.1882 .

Syntype: ZMB 50.59 View Materials (Stuhlmann no. 138), skin, male, collected by F. Stuhlmann at Mbusini, 31.08.1888 .

Syntype (missing): Böhm no. 281, male, collected by R. Böhm at Kakoma, 21.02.1881 .

Syntype (missing): Böhm no. 47, male, collected by R. Böhm at “Kangasi”, 08.08.[1880] .

Syntype (missing): Fischer no. 961, male, collected at “Gross-Aruscha”, 19.07.[1883].

Type locality: “ Deutschostafrika ” [now Tanzania], from the original description as well as localities of the syntypes .

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, nor were there inventory numbers for specimens. However Reichenow (1902a) mentions localities “Grossaruscha”, “ Mandera ”, “Usaramo”, “Kakoma”, “Kangasi” and “Mbusini” with collection month and collector’s names. Therefore, the three specimens available in the ZMB collection are regarded as syntypes. Others from the localities mentioned refer to missing Böhm and Fischer specimens, but were listed in more detail in Schalow (1883) and Fischer (1884). Problematically, Reichenow (1902a) listed for D. chrysurus suahelicus as well as for Dendromus bennetti (Smith) the locality Kakoma (Böhm) with Mar and Nov as collecting months. On the other hand, Schalow (1883) only listed Picus abingoni (Smith) and Picus hemprichi Ehrenberg for Kakoma (Böhm), not Dendromus (Picus) bennetti . It is uncertain which of the missing specimens from Kakoma collected by Böhm in Mar and Nov belong to which species, and which Reichenow included in his description of Dendromus chrysurus suahelicus (1902a) .