Coracias garrulus subsp. loquax Reichenow 1899
Creators: name: Frahnert, Sylke
name: Turner, Donald A.
name: Bracker, Cordula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Coraciiformes
Coraciidae
Coracias
Coracias garrulus
Coracias garrulus loquax reichenow, 1899b: 191

description: Coracias garrulus loquax Reichenow, 1899b: 191.
Now: Coracias garrulus garrulus Linnaeus, 1758. See Reichenow (1902a: 217); White (1965: 236).
Syntype: ZMB 2002.349 (Fischer no. 372), skin, female, juvenile, collected at “Massa”, 01.11.1878.
Syntype: ZMB 2002.350 (Fischer no. 130), skin, male, collected at “Kagehi”, 17.11.1885.
Syntype: ZMB 185, mount, collected by L. Krebs in “Kaffernland”, [1820–1839].
Syntype: ZMB 9589, skin, collected by L. Krebs in “Kaffernland”, [1820–1839].
Syntype: ZMB 24538, mount, female, collected by J.M. Hildebrandt in Duruma, [01.1877].
Syntype: ZMB 28006 (Stuhlmann no. 659), skin, male, collected by F. Stuhlmann at “Quilimane”, 10.02.1889.
Syntype: ZMB 31949 (Stuhlmann no. 92), skin, male, collected by F. Stuhlmann in “Usaramo”, 26.02.1894.
Syntype: ZMB 34140, skin, male, collected by O. Neumann at Pangani, 03.1893.
Syntype: ZMB 34141, skin, female, collected by O. Neumann at Pangani, 03.1893.
Syntype: ZMB 34142, skin, female, collected by O. Neumann at Tanga, 03.1893.
Syntype: ZMB 2002.351 (Böhm no. 790), skin, female, juvenile, collected by R. Böhm at Igonda, 01.01.1882.
Syntype: ZMB 2002.352 (Böhm no. 820), skin, collected by R. Böhm at Igonda, 12.01.1882.
Syntype: ZMB 2002.353, skin, collected by L. von Trotha in the Pare Mountains, 06.03.1896.
Syntype: ZMB 2002.354, skin, female, collected by L. von Trotha at Mkalama, 12.1896.
Syntype: ZMB 2002.355, skin, collected by L. von Trotha on the Ugalla River, 12.1896.
Type locality: Ost- und Südafrika [East and South Africa], from the original description as well as localities of the syntypes.
Remarks: M.H.C. Lichtenstein (1854) named specimens from “Kaffernland” [South Africa] Coracias loquax, but without a description it was in effect a nomen nudum. Later Reichenow (1899b) validated the name by providing a description as well as localities. In Reichenow’s description no type was chosen, nor were measurements or inventory numbers for specimens given. He mentions a “grosse Reihe” (many birds) and extended the range into “Ost- und Südafrika ” (East and South Africa) as localities. Thus, all the specimens at the ZMB from those regions available in 1899 belong to the type series. Reichenow (1902a: 218–219) included the subspecies in the nominate form but further extended the range for Coracias loquax to the whole of Africa, as the differences he found in comparison to the nominate form are aseasonal. Therefore, the specimen list given in this publication is not relevant for the type list.
ZMB 2002.357 and ZMB 2002.358 collected by Schmitt arrived in the collection in 1900, too late to be type specimens. ZMB 2000.20404 (collected by Paul Preuss) also probably arrived too late, while the arrival date of ZMB 2002.356 (collected by Friedrich Fülleborn) is unknown. Thus, these specimens were not included in the type series.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-84 in Zootaxa 5334 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5334.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261358