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Stuttgarter Beiträge Zur Naturkunde Serie a (Biologie)/^^ ZOBODAT - www.zobodat.at Zoologisch-Botanische Datenbank/Zoological-Botanical Database Digitale Literatur/Digital Literature Zeitschrift/Journal: Stuttgarter Beiträge Naturkunde Serie A [Biologie] Jahr/Year: 1991 Band/Volume: 471_A Autor(en)/Author(s): Fricke Ronald Artikel/Article: Types and Historical Materials in the Fish Collection of the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Part 1. The Bleeker Collection. 1-85 download Biodiversity Heritage Library, http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ '"'"Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie)/^^"'"'''^im Herausgeber: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, D-7000 Stuttgart 1 Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. Ser. A Nr. 471 85 S. Stuttgart, 31. 12. 1991 Types and Historical Materials in the Fish Collection of the StaatHches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart'"), Part 1. The Bleeker Collection. By Ronald Fricke, Stuttgart Summary The first part of a catalogue of types stored in the fish collection of the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart includes the types of the Pieter Bleeker collection (received as a gift in 1860 and 1861). The fish collection originally contained types of 71 nominal species described by Bleeker; types of 4 of them were probably lost during World War II. The SMNS collection contains at present types of 67 nominal Bleeker species, i.e. a total of 6 holotypes, 108 syntypes and 13 paralectotypes. In addition, other Bleeker materials in the SMNS collection are listed as important historical materials. Keywords: Pisces; Type catalogue; Bleeker, P.; Indonesia; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart. Zusammenfassung Der erste Teil eines Typenkatalogs der Fischsammlung des Staatlichen Museums für Natur- kunde in Stuttgart behandelt die Typen der Fischsammlungen des holländischen Arztes Dr. Pieter Bleeker, die er dem Museum in den Jahren 1860 und 1861 schenkte. Diese Fisch- sammlung enthielt ursprünglich die Typen von 71 nominellen Fischarten, von denen 4 ver- mutlich während des Zweiten Weltkrieges verloren gingen. Die Sammlung des SMNS enthält heute die Typen von 67 nominellen Arten, die von P. Bleeker beschrieben wurden, insgesamt 6 Holotypen, 108 Syntypen und 13 Paralektotypen. Außerdem enthält die vorliegende Arbeit einen Katalog weiteren wichtigen historischen BLEEKER-Materials, das in Veröffent- lichungen Bleekers beschrieben wurde. ") As the museum has celebratcd its 200 years jubilee in May 1991, a revicw of its history and the history of the fish collection is given in this paper. download Biodiversity Heritage Library, http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ 2 STUTTGARTER BEITRÄGE ZUR NATURKUNDE Ser. A, Nr. 471 Contents 1. Historical review 2 2. Introduction to catalogue 4 3. Methods 6 4. Abbreviations and depositories 6 5. Type catalogue 7 Acanthuridae 7, — Anabantidae 7, — Apogonidae 7, — Ariidae 7, — Bagridae 8, — Belonidae 9, — Belontiidae 9, — Callionymidae 9, — Caracanthidae 10, — Caran- gidae 10, — Chaetodontidae 11, — Clupeidae 11, — Cobitidae 12, — Cynoglossidae 12, — Cyprinidae 12, — Dasyatididae 14, — Eleotrididae 14, — Engraulididae 14, — Gerreidae 14, — Haemulidae 15, — Hemirhamphidae 15, — Holocentridae 15, — Labridae 15, — Leiognathidae 16, — Lutjanidae 16, — Monacanthidae 17, — Mugi- lidae 17, — Mullidae 17, — Notopteridae 18, - Ostraciidae 18, — Plotosidae 18, — Sciaenidae 18, — Scombridae 18, — Scorpaenidae 19, — Serranidae 19, — Siganidae 20, — Sisoridae 20, — Stromateidae 20, — Syngnathidae 20, — Tetraodontidae 21. 6. Historical materials 21 Acanthuridae 21, — Ambassidae 22, — Anabantidae 22, — Anguillidae 22, — Antennariidae 22, — Apogonidae 23, — Ariidae 23, — Atherinidae 23, — Aulosto- midae 24, — Bagridae 24, — Balistidae 24, — Batrachoididae 25, — Belonidae 25, — Belontiidae 25, — Blenniidae 25, — Bythitidae 25, — Caesiodidae 26, — Caracan- thidae 26, — Carangidae 26, — Carcharhinidae 28, — Centriscidae 28, — Chaeto- dontidae 28, — Chandidae 30, — Chanidae 30, — Channidae 30, — Clarüdae 30, — Clupeidae 31, — Cobitidae 31, — Congridae 31, — Cyprinidae 31, — Dactylopte- ridae 33, — Dasyatididae 33, — Diodontidae 34, — Echeneididae 34, — Eleotrididae 34, — Engraulididae 34, — Ephippiidae 34, — Fistulariidae 35, — Gerreidae 35, — Gobiidae 35, — Grammistidae 36, — Haemulidae 36, — Helostomatidae 37, — Hemirhamphidae 37, — Holocentridae 37, — Kurtidae 38, — Labridae 38, — Lei- ognathidae 41, — Lethrinidae 42, — Lobotidae 43, — Lutjanidae 43, — Mastacem- belidae 44, — Megalopidae 44, — Menidae 44, — Monacanthidae 44, — Monodacty- lidae 45, — Moringuidae 45, — Mugilidae 45, — Mugiloididae 45, — Mullidae 46, — Muraenesocidae 47, — Muraenidae 47, — Nemipteridae 48, — Notopteridae 48, — Ophichthyidae 49, — Osphronemidae 49, — Osteoglossidae 49, — Ostraciidae 49, — Pangasiidae 49, — Pegasidae 50, — Pempherididae 50, — Platycephalidae 50, — Plesiopidae 50, — Plotosidae 50, — Polynemidae 51, — Pomacanthidae 51, — Pomacentridae 51, — Psettodidae 53, — Pseudochromidae 53, — Rachycentridae 54, — Scaridae 54, — Scatophagidae 54, — Sciaenidae 54, — Scombridae 55, — Scor- paenidae 55, — Scyliorhinidae 56, — Serranidae 56, — Siganidae 58, — Sillaginidae 59, — Siluridae 59, — Soleidae 59, — Sphyraenidae 59, — Stromateidae 59, — Syn- branchidae 60, — Syngnathidae 60, — Synodontidae 60, — Teraponidae 61, — Te- traodontidae 61, — Toxotidae 63, — Triacanthidae 63, — Trichiuridae 63, — Try- pauchenidae 63, — Zanclidae 64. 7. Acknowledgments 64 8. References 64 9. Index 72 1. Historical Review The 200 year old Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart is one ot the largest natural history museums in Mid Europe. It is a State museum (State of Baden- Württemberg, Federal Republic of Germany), and employs today 28 scientists, with a total of about 150 employees. The natural history collection was founded in the 17th Century, when natural curiosities were collected in the "Herzoglich Württembergische Kunstkammer". Since about 1690, unpaid keepers were in charge of the collection. By decree of Duke download Biodiversity Heritage Library, http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ fricke; smns fish type CATALOGUE 1 3 Karl Eugen von Württemberg, it became independent from the art collection in 1791. In 1826, the collections moved to a new Building in Stuttgart (Neckarstrasse 4 — 6, at Archivstrasse); in that year, the public natural history museum was founded ("Naturhistorische Staatssammlung Württembergs"). After 1826, the collections were reorganized and increased. Annex buildings were added providing more space in 1837 and 1864 (Lampert, 1896). The collections remained in the Neckarstrasse/ Archivstrasse buildings tili World War II, when they were moved to over 30 differ- ent localities all over southwestern Germany in order to protect them from bomb- ardments. Before the evacuation was completed, the museum building was hit by bombs in September 1944 and burnt out completely, destroying natural history materials. After the war, the Museum housed temporarily in ruins, then in old bar- racks in Ludwigsburg. In 1950, the museum name was changed to "Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart". Parts of the exhibition moved into Schloss Rosenstein in Stuttgart in 1954. More scientific staff was employed since the begin- ning of the 1960s (Schüz, 1966). A new building near the Löwentor in Stuttgart was opened on 4 December 1985. At present, the Schloss Rosenstein is reconstructed; it will be reopened with new exhibitons in 1993. The fish collection mostly started in 1800. Nearly no dry materials collected before 1800 survived. The first alcohol specimens are from 1818, when the museum received a collection from Venice by von Marxens. The fish collection increased slowly with materials from South Africa collected by Ludwig and Krauss (1837, 1840), from Surinam collected by Kappler (1845 to 1880), from Egypt by Grie- singer (1852), and from Brazil by Glocker (1853, 1854). Materials were exchanged with the Museums in Milano (1853, 1857), Hamburg (1859) and Cambridge, Massa- chusetts (1859, 1864, 1876). In 1860 and 1861, collections of Bleeker from Indonesia were purchased. After 1860, the fish collection increased faster, with materials from Brazil (Moniz d'Aragar, 1861), the Ethiopian Red Sea (Heuglin, 1861, 1865), Mediterranean (Klunzinger, von Elsaessser and Gegenbaur, 1862 — 1863), Indo- nesia (von Rosenberg and Ludeking, 1867), and Nigeria (Mann, 1868 to 1877). Large collections from AustraHa were presented by von Müller (1868 to 1891). Also important were materials from the northern Red Sea presented by Klunzinger (1869 to 1894). Later, fishes from New Zealand (von Haast, 1876), India (Dobson, 1877; Warth, 1877), Guatemala (Sarg, 1879 to 1885), Tokyo (Bair, 1882; Schneider, 1883; Schmidt-Scharf, 1906), and the Near East (Lortet, 1884) were added. The museum exchanged materials with the museums in Copenhagen, Vienna, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Petersburg, Hamburg and Berlin. In the end of the 19th Century, large collections were received from Singapore (Mayer, 1897, 1902), from several Pacific islands (Krämer, 1898 to 1900), Indonesia (Poplot, 1904), from the German colonies including West and East Africa, China, New Guinea (several col- lectors), Taiwan (Sauter, 1908), Wladiwostok (Wittenburg, 1908), and other areas. In 1910, fishes of the Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition 1898/1899 were received. In the 1920s, materials from Argentina of the Deutsche Chaco-Expedition 1925/26, and from Brazil (Ehrhardt, 1923, 1928) were added. A collection from South Africa was purchased in 1965, a Latimaria chalumnae from the Comoro Islands
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