Pyromelana franciscana subsp. pusilla Hartert
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Pyromelana franciscana pusilla Hartert
Pyromelana franciscana pusilla Hartert, 1901c: 71 (Lake Stephanie).
Now Euplectes franciscanus (Isert, 1789). See Zedlitz, 1916: 26–28; Hartert, 1919: 144; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 67–68; Craig, 1993a: 87–88; Dickinson, 2003: 725; Fry and Keith, 2004: 215–217; Ash and Atkins, 2009: 343; and Craig, 2010: 143–144.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 726383, adult male, collected on 7 June 1895, at Chew Bahir swamp (= Lake Stephanie), 04.40N, 36.55E (Ash and Atkins, 2009: 406), Ethiopia, by A. Donaldson Smith (no. 655). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: The male specimen from Chew Bahir swamp was designated the type by Hartert in the original description. In addition, he included a female with eggs paired with the above male and a male from Barri, Ethiopia (= Central Somaliland) both collected by Donaldson Smith. Paratypes are, with Donaldson Smith’s field numbers in parentheses: Chew Bahir swamp, AMNH 726384 (654), female, 7 June 1895; Barri, AMNH 726384 (485), adult male, 11 January 1895.
Hartert’s pusillus is often recognized as a subspecies of Euplectes orix, but as long ago as Zedlitz (1916: 27) the variation was believed to be individual, and recent molecular data have not supported treatment of franciscanus as a subspecies of E. orix (Craig, 2010: 143).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1895-01-11 , 1895-06-07
- Family
- Ploceidae
- Genus
- Pyromelana
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 726383 , AMNH 726384
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Hartert
- Species
- pusilla
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 1895-01-11 , 1895-06-07
References
- Hartert, E. 1901 c. [Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited and described-]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 11: 71.
- Zedlitz, O. 1916. Das Sud-Somaliland als zoogeographisches Gebiet. Eine ornithologische Studie. Journal fur Ornithologie 64: 1 - 120.
- Hartert, E. 1919. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection. Novitates Zoologicae 26: 123 - 178.
- 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.
- Craig, A. J. F. K. 1993 a. Geographical variation and taxonomy of the genus Euplectes (Aves, Ploceidae). Part I. The short-tailed bishop birds. Journal of African Zoology 107 (1): 83 - 96.
- 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.
- Ash, J., and J. Atkins. 2009. Birds of Ethiopia and Eritrea. An atlas of distribution. London: Christopher Helm, 463 pp., 16 figs., 3 tables, photographs, gazetteer.
- 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.