Types in ZFMK: Section Ornithology 



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OTIDIDAE 



Choriotis arabs geyri Niethammer, 1954 

 Bonn zool Beitr 5: 193. 



Lectotype: ZFMK 54.565, male, 250 km NW of Agades, 

 Niger (Sahara). 30.01.1 954, leg. G. Niethammer No 5 1 1 ; 

 Second specimen of the description lost. - Dickinson 

 (2003): Choriotis arabs geyri. 



Afrotis afra bohmeri Hoesch & Niethammer, 1940 

 J Ornithol 88; Sonderheft: 124. 



Holotype: ZFMK 39.789, male, E side of the Brandberg, 

 Namibia, 23.09.1938, leg. G. Niethammer. - Dickinson 

 (2003): Afrotis afra (Linnaeus, 1758). 



RALLIDAE 



Gallinula chloropus vestigialis Clancey, 1939 

 Bull BOC 59: 70. 



Paratype: ZFMK 50.131, male, Renfrewshire, Scotland, 

 15.01.1936, leg. Clancey. 



Syntypes in Collection Clancey, RSME, Edinburgh and 

 Collection Ticehirst; t.t. Near Bardowie, Stirlingshire, 

 Scotland. A large series of unspecified skins from various 

 museums was investigated. - Dickinson (2003): Gallinu- 

 la chloropus chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758). 



HAEMATOPODIDAE 



Haematopus ostralegus occidentalis Neumann, 1929 

 Gefiederte Welt 58: 161. 



Holotype: ZFMK M. VI. 14. a 1 . a., male, Auskerry, Orkney 

 Islands, 03.10.1913, leg. TicehurstNo 1491. Type defined 

 by Neumann not until 1932 (Anz Orn Ges Bayern 2: 148). 

 - Dickinson (2003): Haematopus ostralegus ostralegus 

 Linnaeus, 1758. 



CHARADRIIDAE 



Charadrius hiaticula harrisoni Clancey, 1949 

 Limosa 22: 319. 



Bonn zoological Bulletin 59: 29-77 



Paralectotypes: ZFMK 50.318-50.319, male, female, Dal- 

 iburgh and Bornish, Outer Hebrides, 17. and 23.06.1947, 

 leg. Clancey, in exchange for other specimens handed to 

 the ZFMK. 



In the original description only the holotype is designat- 

 ed. Status of ZFMK specimens taken from inventory and 

 labels. If not included in Ch. h. hiaticula Linne, 1758, one 

 might regard this form as nom. nov. for the preoccupied 

 Charadrius hiaticula major Seebohm, 1885. Its type ought 

 to be regarded then as lectotype for Seebohm's subspecies, 

 for which no type specimen exists. Type stored within the 

 Collection Clancey, RSME, Edinburgh, t.t. Rudha Ard- 

 vule, Bornish, South Uist, Outer Hebrides. - Dickinson 

 (2003): Charadrius hiaticula hiaticula Linnaeus, 1758. 



GLAREOLIDAE 



Rhinoptilus africanus erlangeri Niethammer & Wolters, 

 1966 



Bonn zool Beitr 17: 159. 



Holotype: ZFMK 39.736, female ad., 40 km E Cape Cross, 

 Namibia, 25.09.1938, leg. G. Niethammer No 139. 



Paralectotypes: ZFMK 39.737, female, Erongo, 

 28.10.1938; ZFMK 39.738, female, Omaruru, 

 27.09X.1938; ZFMK M.IIJ.a.a., male, Kayas, 

 13.07.1934; ZFMK M.n.3.a.p., female, Kayas 15.07.1934; 

 ZFMK G.IIJ.a.y., female, Ombutjomatemba, 30.08.1934; 

 ZFMK M.n.3.a.5. 3 male, Ombutjomatemba, 08.03.1935, 

 all leg. Hoesch; ZFMK 66.660, female, Hohenfels, Wa- 

 terberg, 27.05.1931, leg. Maltzahn. 



Described from a series of 14 specimens, of which five 

 paratypes are not in the ZFMK. The name Rhinoptilus a. 

 sharpei Erlanger, 1905, doesn't correspond to the sub- 

 species above, it is in fact a synonym of Rhinoptilus 

 africanus africanus (Temminck, 1807). - Dickinson 

 (2003): Rhinoptilus africanus erlangeri. 



ALCIDAE 



Mormon arcticus meridionalis Jordans, 1914 

 Falco 10: 153. 



Syntypes: ZFMK Q.I.7.a 2 .y., male, Bahia de Alcudia, Ma- 

 jorca, 07.04.1913; ZFMK Q.I.7.a 2 . 5., female, Bahia de 

 Alcudia, Majorca, 07.04.1913; leg. A. von Jordans, No 

 999-1000. - Dickinson (2003): Fratercula arctica grabae 

 (C. L. Brehm, 1831). 



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