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Gallinula angulata 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

Gallinula angulata Sundevall 1850: 110.

VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Hab. in Caffraria inferiore ”.

CURRENT STATUS: Gallinula angulata Sundevall, 1850; Rallidae (Dickinson & Remsen 2013: 161).

TYPE MATERIAL: In the original type description Sundevall gave information about an adult male and a juvenile specimen. According to Sundevall’s acquisition catalogue, the original type series must have consisted of at least nine specimens. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 107) referred to NRM 569826 [7890] as “type”, which we treat here as a lectotype designation of an adult male, collected 23 March 1841 at uMlazi River. The eight paralectotypes are: NRM 90108136 [7895], an adult female collected 6 April 1841 at uMlazi River; NRM 554403 [7892], a juvenile male collected 9 April 1841 at uMlazi River; NRM 901081 [7891], an adult male collected 27 January 1842 at Apies River; NRM 554404 [7893], a pullus (not sexed) collected 14 February 1842 at Apies River; RMNH. AVES.229709 [7888], an adult male collected 29 March 1841 at uMlazi River; and RMNH. AVES.229710 [7896], a female collected 22 April 1841 at uMlazi River, both sent on exchange to Leiden in 1850; and a male collected 24 March 1841 at uMlazi River and a female collected 22 April 1841 at uMlazi River, both sent on exchange to Berlin in 1853 (but no longer found in the ZMB collection).

VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: uMlazi River, KwaZulu-Natal.

COMMENTS: Date and place are confirmed by journal entries. Wahlberg collected at the mouth of the uMlazi River, Durban, from 11 March to 6 May 1841.

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 526, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5134.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6541737

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
VERIFIED
Scientific name authorship
Sundevall
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Gruiformes
Family
Rallidae
Genus
Gallinula
Species
angulata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Gallinula angulata 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.