Type Catalogue of the Ichthyological Collection of the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Part I: Historie type material from the "Old Collection ", destroyed in the night 24/25 April 1944 Dirk Neumann Neumann; D. (2006): Type Catalogue of the Ichthyological Collection of the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Part I: Historie type material from the "Old Collection", destroyed in the night 24/25 April 1944. -Spixiana 29/3: 259-285 For the first time a type catalogue of the Ichthyological Collection of the Zoolo-gische Staatssammlung München (ZSM) is published. In 2005 the Global Biodiver-sity Information Facility (GBIF) programme aimed to create a database of the type speeimens in German research museums. In the course of this programme, the fish collection in ZSM was searched for hidden type material previously considered lost and available type material was revised. With the end of the projeet in 2006 and publication of the type catalogue, the reorganisation and thorough revision of the fish collection in ZSM started by F. Glaw in 1998 is completed. Besides the data basing of available type material searched by F. Zajitschek and S. Neil already in 1998, there was a streng focus to restore information from his-toric publications concerning fish collections known to be housed in the "Old Col-lection" of ZSM in the course of the GBIF programme. Historie ichthyological collections originally deposited and formally housed in the historic "Old Collection" of the Zoologische Staatssammlung München known so far: fishes from the Spix Collection (Brazilian Expedition of Spix and Martius, 1817-1820), the Bleeker speeimens from Dutch East India, the Moritz Wagner Col-lection with freshwater fishes from Panama and Ecuador (1858-1859), European freshwater fishes from the Collections of Franz von Paula Schrank (1817-1835), Carl Theodor von Siebold (1854-1863) and Bruno Hofer (~ 1900), the Japanese fishes from the Collections Karl August Haberer (1898-1901) and Franz Doflein (1904), the Col-lection of Princess Therese von Bayern from her expeditions to Mexico (1893) and South America (1898), and the Erich Zugmayer Collection from Tibet (1906) and Pakistan (1911). Nearly all types described from these historic collections were ap-parently destroyed in the night 24/25 April 1944 during a bombing raid. Only few speeimens were saved which were either evacuated separately from the public exhibition or already exchanged from ZSM to other museums, i.e. London (BMNH), Vienna (NMW) and Frankfurt (SMF) already before World War IL As known from literature sources so far, the historic "Old Collection" of the ZSM ichthyological collection contained at least 10000 speeimens including 541 type speeimens of 88 taxa (36 holotypes and 505 syntypes) out of 51 families. None of the types from the "Old Collection" mentioned in this first part of the type catalogue were found during a type search in 2005 in the ichthyological collection of ZSM; all types mentioned here have to be considered as lost in Word War IL During the type search in 2005, additional historic speeimens including type material were re-discovered in the Zoologische Präparatesammlung der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. A review of this collection is given in the second part of this type catalogue. The ichthyological section of this collection was trans-ferred and incorporated into ZSM in 2004. Dirk Neumann, Zoologische Staatssammlung, Münchhausenstr. 21, 81247 Mün-chen, Germany; e-mail:
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