This paragraph contains a number of errors: 1. The names of the authors are transposed; 2. The year of
publication should be 1840. Husson & Holthuis (1955), in “The dates of publication of the Verhandelingen over de
natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen”, show that the species description was
published in 1845, although the accompanying plate was published in 1840. Because this plate (see Figs. 1–8), with
a coloured habitus figure bears the name Osteoglossum formosum, the species name was validly published in 1840;
3. The page on which the name is first mentioned in Müller & Schlegel (1845) is not 7, but 1. Pouyaud et al. (2003)
partly corrected these errors, but followed Eschmeyer et al. (1998) on two other points in which they were
mistaken. The type locality given in the original description is not just Barito River, but “lakes along the Doeson
River”. Details on the type locality could be found in other literature (see below). A more serious error of Pouyaud
et al. (op. cit.) is the blind acceptance of the statement concerning the types. Eschmeyer et al. (1998: 9) state in the
introduction of their Catalogue: “We provide statements such as ‘Not found’ or ‘No types known’ when that is the
best information available to us”. Consequently, this statement does not mean that the types are lost, but only that
they could not be located during Eschmeyer’s visits to the museums, or by the curators and collection managers he
This paragraph contains a number of errors: 1. The names of the authors are transposed; 2. The year of
publication should be 1840. Husson & Holthuis (1955), in “The dates of publication of the Verhandelingen over de
natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen”, show that the species description was
published in 1845, although the accompanying plate was published in 1840. Because this plate (see Figs. 1–8), with
a coloured habitus figure bears the name Osteoglossum formosum, the species name was validly published in 1840;
3. The page on which the name is first mentioned in Müller & Schlegel (1845) is not 7, but 1. Pouyaud et al. (2003)
partly corrected these errors, but followed Eschmeyer et al. (1998) on two other points in which they were
mistaken. The type locality given in the original description is not just Barito River, but “lakes along the Doeson
River”. Details on the type locality could be found in other literature (see below). A more serious error of Pouyaud
et al. (op. cit.) is the blind acceptance of the statement concerning the types. Eschmeyer et al. (1998: 9) state in the
introduction of their Catalogue: “We provide statements such as ‘Not found’ or ‘No types known’ when that is the
best information available to us”. Consequently, this statement does not mean that the types are lost, but only that
they could not be located during Eschmeyer’s visits to the museums, or by the curators and collection managers he
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