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Hemipodius nanus Sundevall 1850

  • 1. Research Associate, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701 South Africa. wrjdean 01 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6541 - 3565 & Wolwekraal Conservation and Research Organisation, P. O. Box 47, Prince Albert 6930, South Africa. & South African Environmental Observation Network, Arid Lands Node, Kimberley, South Africa.
  • 2. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Zoology, Box 50007, SE- 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.

Description

Hemipodius nanus Sundevall, 1850: 110.

VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Habitat in Caffraria inferiore.

CURRENT STATUS: Turnix hottentottus nanus (Sundevall, 1850); Turnicidae (Dickinson & Remsen 2013: 218).

TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall in his original description gave data for both male and female. According to Sundevall’s acquisition catalogue, he had five specimens on hand for the description (listed as Hemipodius sp. ign.). Gyldenstolpe (1926: 110) referred to two specimens as types, a male and a female, so no lectotype is designated and the type series consists of syntypes. The syntypes are: NRM 569828 [7728], an adult male collected 25 April 1840 in Durban; NRM 536899 [7730], a mounted female collected 17 July 1841 in Durban; NRM 90107580 [7732], a study skin of an adult female collected 29 December 1839 in Durban; RMNH. AVES.229704 [7729], a female collected 18 August 1841 at Pietermaritzburg, sent on exchange to Leiden in 1850; and a female [7731] collected 7 April 1840 in Durban, sent to Uppsala in 1857.

VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban and Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal.

COMMENTS: Dates and place are confirmed by journal entries.

Notes

Published as part of Dean, W. Richard J., Åhlander, Erik & Johansson, Ulf S., 2022, Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa, pp. 521-560 in Zootaxa 5134 (4) on page 528, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5134.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6541737

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
TYPE , VERIFIED
Event date
1839-12-29
Verbatim event date
1839-12-29/1841-08-18
Scientific name authorship
Sundevall
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Turnicidae
Genus
Hemipodius
Species
nanus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Hemipodius nanus Sundevall, 1850 sec. Dean, Åhlander & Johansson, 2022

References

  • Sundevall, C. J. (1850) Foglar fran sodra Afrika. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-akademiens forhandlingar, 7 (4), 96 - 111.
  • Dickinson, E. C. & Remsen, J. V. (2013) The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4 th Edition. Vol. 1. Non-passerines. Aves Press, Eastbourne, 461 pp.
  • Gyldenstolpe, N. (1926) Types of birds in the Royal Natural History Museum in Stockholm. Arkiv f or Zoologi, 19, 1 - 116.