Pyromelana flammiceps subsp. rothschildi Neumann
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Pyromelana flammiceps rothschildi Neumann
Pyromelana flammiceps rothschildi Neumann, 1907: 596 (Abaya See).
Now Euplectes hordeaceus (Linnaeus, 1758). See Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 67; Craig, 1993a: 89; Dickinson, 2003: 725; Fry and Keith, 2004: 224–226; Ash and Atkins, 2009: 343; and Craig, 2010: 146–147.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 726245, adult male, collected on Lake Abaya (= Abaya See, or Lac Marguerite, as on label), 06.01N, 37.41E– 06.36N, 38.07E (Ash and Atkins, 2009: 399), Ethiopia, on 5 June 1905, on the Baron Maurice de Rothschild Expedition to Ethopia. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann designated the type as a male from Lake Abaya and stated that he had five males in breeding plumage. He gave the range as from Lake Abaya to Borana, Ethiopia. The four paratypes are: AMNH 726241, male plumage (sexed as female on label), Wolamo (= Walamo, as on label) Region, 25 June, 1905; AMNH 726242–726244, males, Gatou, Borana, 29 May 1905. These specimens were formerly mounted. According to Maurice de Rothschild (1922: xvii) the expedition was in Central Ethopia in May and June 1905. Hartert did not list this holotype in any of his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection, and it had not previously been included with the AMNH type specimens.
Craig (1993a: 89) considered rothschildi to be a synonym of E. hordeaceus craspedopterus, which many authors recognize; Fry and Keith (2004: 224–226) and Craig (2010: 146– 147) considered E. hordeaceus monotypic.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1905-06-05
- Family
- Ploceidae
- Genus
- Pyromelana
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 726241 , AMNH 726242-726244 , AMNH 726245
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Neumann
- Species
- rothschildi
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 1905-06-05
References
- Neumann, O. 1907. Neue Vogel-Arten aus Nordost- und Ost-Afrika. Journal fur Ornithologie 55: 593 - 597.
- 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.
- Rothschild, W. 1922. [Lord Rothschild sent the descriptions of some new Yunnan birds, collected by Mr. G. Forrest …: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 43: 9 - 12.