Aplonis fuscus subsp. hullianus Mathews
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Aplonis fuscus hullianus Mathews
Aplonis fuscus hullianus Mathews, 1912a: 451 (Lord Howe Island).
Now Aplonis fusca hulliana Mathews, 1912. See Hartert, 1928: 192; Amadon, 1962a: 79; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 653–654; and Dickinson, 2003: 653.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 668044, unsexed, collected on Lord Howe Island, 31.28S, 159.09E
(Times Atlas), Australia, undated, by (or for) Henry H. Travers. From the Mathews Collection (no. 9361) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews, in the original description, listed his catalog number of the holotype but did not mention other specimens. Opposite his catalog number 9361, Mathews noted that he had obtained this specimen from Rothschild, but a Rothschild Collection label is no longer on the specimen. In addition to Travers’ label, and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the specimen bears a small metal label imprinted with the number ‘‘0.1486.’’
Mathews (1928: 55) listed this subspecies and gave descriptions of a male and a female, both collected after the description of hulliana; there is no indication that he had more than one specimen when he named the form.
Hartert (1928: 192) listed this specimen as the type of hulliana and noted the uncertainty as to whether the specimen was collected by Travers himself or was collected for him by someone else. The species is considered to be extinct and was not listed by Craig and Feare (2009), but was discussed by Hume and Walters (2012: 275–276).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Family
- Sturnidae
- Genus
- Aplonis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 668044
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Mathews
- Species
- hullianus
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
References
- Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.
- Hartert, E. 1928. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. C. Additional and overlooked types. Novitates Zoologicae 34: 189 - 230.
- Amadon, D. 1962 a. Family Sturnidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Check-list of birds of the world, 15: 75 - 121. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
- Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 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.
- Mathews, G. M. 1928. The birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands and the Australian South Polar quadrant with additions to '' The birds of Australia. '' London: H. F. & G. Witherby, xii + 139 pp, 45 pls.
- Craig, A. J. F. K., and C. J. Feare. 2009. Family Sturnidae (starlings), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 14, Bush-shrikes to Old World sparrows: 711 - 758. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp, 51 pls., photographs.
- Hume, J. P., and M. Walters. 2012. Extinct birds. London: T & AD Poyser, 544 pp.