Rediscovery of oxudercine type specimens (Teleostei: Gobiidae) assumed destroyed during World War II

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• 作者：Peter Konstantinidis ; Zeehan Jaafar ; Peter Warth ; Matthias Stoll…
• 关键词：Periophthalmus ; Oxudercinae ; Mudskippers ; Phyletic Museum
• 刊名：Ichthyological Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：64
• 期：1
• 页码：123-130
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Zoology; Ecology; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/ Biogeography; Freshwater & Marine Ecology;
• 出版者：Springer Japan
• ISSN：1616-3915
• 卷排序：64

文摘

Walter Bruno Eggert described nine species and fifteen subspecies of the oxudercine genus Periophthalmus in 1929 and 1935. His descriptions were based primarily on specimens collected by Jürgen Wilhelm Harms during several expeditions to South-east Asia and Japan. The whereabouts of many of the type specimens were unknown, and were presumed destroyed during World War II. We recently rediscovered the type material for six species and ten subspecies in the collection of the Phyletic Museum in Jena, Germany. We provide detailed accounts of this material and the historical figures involved in safeguarding them during the tumultuous war years.