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Malimbus flavipes Chapin 1916

Creators

  • 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History

Description

Malimbus flavipes Chapin

Malimbus flavipes Chapin, 1916: 27 (Avakubi, Ituri District, Belgian Congo).

Now Ploceus flavipes (Chapin, 1916). See Chapin, 1954b: 388–389; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 55; Dickinson, 2003: 723; Fry and Keith, 2004: 104; and Craig, 2010: 187.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 162602, adult female, collected at Avakubi, 01.24N, 27.40E (Chapin, 1954a), Ituri district, Congo (Kinshasa), on 20 September 1913, by James P. Chapin (no. 5067). Collected on the Lang-Chapin Expedition.

COMMENTS: Chapin collected a single specimen of this rare species and gave his field number for it in the original description.

Notes

Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 25, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Event date
1913-09-20
Family
Ploceidae
Genus
Malimbus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 162602
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Chapin
Species
flavipes
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1913-09-20
Taxonomic concept label
Malimbus flavipes Chapin, 1916 sec. Lecroy, 2014

References

  • Chapin, J. P. 1916. Four new birds from the Belgian Congo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35 (3): 23 - 29.
  • Chapin, J. P. 1954 b. The birds of the Belgian Congo, Part 4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 75 B: ix + 846 pp., 27 pls.
  • Moreau, R. E., and J. C. Greenway, Jr. 1962. Family Ploceidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Check-list of birds of the world, 15: 3 - 75. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
  • Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
  • Fry, C. H. and S. Keith (editors). 2004. The birds of Africa, vol. 7. Princeton: Princeton University Press, xxi + 666 pp, 36 pls.
  • Craig, A. J. F. K. 2010. Family Ploceidae (weavers), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 15, weavers to New World warblers: 132 - 197. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp, 60 pls., photographs.
  • Chapin, J. P. 1954 a. Gazetteer for '' The birds of the Belgian Congo. '' Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 75 B: 638 - 738.