Addendum to the catalogue of cephalopod types in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, with remarks on Onychoteuthis taxa described by Hinrich Lichtenstein
✍ Scribed by Frank Köhler; Matthias Glaubrecht
- Publisher
- Pensoft Publishers
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 786 KB
- Volume
- 80
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0232-5519
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✦ Synopsis
This paper documents types of seven cephalopod taxa held in the Malacozoological Collection of the Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin (ZMB), in addition to those 41 types that were listed in an annotated catalogue published by Glaubrecht & Salcedo-Vargas (2000). With a total now of 48 cephalopod types, this renders the Berlin collection the second largest in Europe, according to published accounts on the inventory of type specimens kept in natural history museums worldwide. The paper lists type specimens of taxa described by Rudolf Wilhelm Dunker (2), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (l), Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein (l), and Eduard von Martens (3). Brief taxonomic remarks are given whenever necessary and lectotypes are designated for nomenclatorial reasons. Some of the additional types are argonauts that have not been treated in the former account. In addition two decapod types are documented that were overlooked. We further comment on four taxa that were originally affiliated with the genus Onychoteuthis first described by Lichtenstein (1818). These names ever since were connected to taxonomic ambiguities, most likely due to the fact that the original publication in German was not easily accessible to researchers. By re-evaluating Lichtenstein's explanations and selecting lectotypes for the names introduced by him we attempt to contribute to taxonomic stability.