Bonn zoological Bulletin 



Volume 59 



pp. 109-136 



Bonn, December 2010 



Catalogue of type specimens of fishes in the 

 Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn 



Fabian Herder 1 - 2 , Jan Huylebrouck 1 & Klaus Busse 1 

 'Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn 

 Corresponding author. E-mail: f.herder.zfmk@uni-bonn.de. 



Abstract. Here we provide a checklist of type specimens housed in the fish collection of the Zoologisches Forschungsmu- 

 seum Alexander Koenig, Bonn (ZFMK). The catalogue includes type locality and sampling data, lists type material of 

 the taxa represented in ZFMK deposited in other collections, provides remarks on the current status of the material, and 

 covers the relevant bibliography. In total, 126 species are represented, 80 of these by holo- or lectotypes. 



Key Words. Type specimens, taxonomy, fish, ichthyology, type catalogue, ZFMK Bonn. 



INTRODUCTION 



The ichthyology section of the Zoologisches 

 Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig was founded in 

 1954, and currently contains more than 41,000 fish spec- 

 imens representing > 1500 species. The latter number is 

 however based on the current state of ongoing digital iza- 

 tion, and is most likely a rather serious underestimation 

 of the collection's inventories. Among other material, the 

 collection contains material collected by the museum 

 founder A. Koenig since 1879, specimens obtained from 

 South America by the institute's first fish curator K. H. 

 Liiling, collections of Indian fish from marine and brack- 

 ish habitats collected by G. A. von Maydell in the 1950s, 

 and important collections of freshwater fish from Central 

 Vientnam collected by J. Freyhof and colleagues at the be- 

 ginning of the last decade. The name-bearing types in the 

 ichthyology section partially reflect the collection focus, 

 composed in prominent parts by e.g. Asian loaches, South 

 American characins, and catfishes from both regions. The 

 ZFMK collection also houses substantial numbers of kil- 

 lifish types from Africa and South America, most desig- 

 nated either by L. Seegers or R. Sonnenberg. 



The present type catalogue includes, besides of taxon 

 names and collection references, in brief some crucial da- 

 ta from the original descriptions and the current status at 

 time of publication; these include also additional type ma- 

 terial housed in other collections. 



MATERIAL AND METHODS 



The order of fish families in the present catalogue wide- 

 ly follows Eschmeyer's (1998) "Catalog of Fishes". With- 

 in families, species appear in alphabetical order of the 

 genus as used in the original description. If not stated oth- 

 erwise, taxon names are valid as originally published, 

 widely based on the online database of the "Catalog of 

 Fishes" (http://research.calacademy.org/ichthyology/cat- 

 alog/fishcatmain.asp) in November 2010. The original ref- 

 erence is provided in brief for each single taxon. As far 

 as available in the description, the present catalogue in- 

 cludes besides of collection numbers also data on size, sex, 

 locality (in increasing order, i.e. from habitat data to coun- 

 try name), coordinates, collection date and collector(s). In 

 addition, we included for fish taxa represented by types 

 in ZFMK also the relevant data of other type material, in- 

 cluding collection and number (if available), and in most 

 cases the same relevant data as outlined above. If not stat- 

 ed otherwise, size data refer to mm standard length. Num- 

 bers in parentheses following collection numbers refer to 

 the number of specimen in the respective series or lot. Da- 

 ta on sex refer to the composition of individuals as orig- 

 inally published; specific data describing the amount of 

 males and females within certain series are not included. 

 As far as possible, locality data were translated to Eng- 

 lish; coordinates are provided as they appear in the orig- 

 inal description. 



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