Halieus leucogaster

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Holotype: ZMB 14227 (Lichtenstein 1832, Nr. 80 sub “ Halieus ”), skin, collected by Meyen in “ October ” [= 25 – 27 October 1831; see below] in “ Manila ” [= Truro Shoal, South China Sea] (see below). Type locality. Meyen (1834 a) did not specify where he collected the holotype, but mentioned (p. 113) that “ Bei Gelegenheit eines sehr heftigen Sturms wurde dieser Vogel auf das Deck unsers [sic] Schiffes geworfen. ” (“ the bird was thrown on the deck of our ship during a heavy storm ”). Lichtenstein (1832) imprecisely stated that the bird was collected in “ October ” at “ Manila ”. The Prinzess Louise encountered a heavy storm on 25 – 27 October 1831 (Meyen 1835: 290, Berghaus 1842: 79 – 80), when it was north-west of Scarborough Reef [15.13 ° N, 117.77 ° E] in the area of Truro Shoal [16.32 ° N, 116.68 ° E] on its way from Manila, Philippines, to Guangzhou, China. We thus ascertain the type locality as the South China Sea at Truro Shoal.