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Piprisoma obsoletum subsp. tinctum Mayr

Description

Piprisoma obsoletum tinctum Mayr

Piprisoma obsoletum tinctum Mayr, 1944: 167 (Waingapu, Sumba).

Now Dicaeum agile tinctum (Mayr, 1944). See White and Bruce, 1986: 408, and Cheke and Mann, 2008b: 370–371.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 308003, adult male, collected at Waingapu (5 Waingapoe, as on label), 09.40S, 120.16E (Times Atlas), Nangamessi Bay, Sumba Island, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 15 May 1932, by Georg Stein (no. 4664).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description; he did not say how many specimens he examined, but included a single specimen each from Flores and Alor in addition to his Sumba birds and included Sumbawa in the range of tinctum. Mayr would have had, in addition to the Stein specimens, specimens from the other localities that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The following are paratypes: AMNH 347017–347024, collected on Sumba by Stein in 1932; AMNH 698401–698406, specimens from the Rothschild Collection, collected by A.F. Everett and W. Doherty on Sumba in 1896; AMNH 698407, collected by Everett on Flores in 1896; AMNH 698410, collected by Everett on Alor in 1897. Stein’s expedition was jointly sponsored by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH, Walter Rothschild, and ZMB. The Rothschild and AMNH shares of the collection are at AMNH, and AMNH 347018, 347019, and 347122 were sent to ZMB in January 1956.

Mayr and Amadon (1947: 17) and Salomonsen (1960b: 13) pointed out that records of Dicaeum agile tinctum from Sumbawa were based on immatures of D. annae having been misidentified as D. agile. There are apparently no substantiated records of D. agile tinctum from Sumbawa.

Notes

Published as part of Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333) on page 108

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Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH , AMNH, ZMB
Material sample ID
AMNH 308003 , AMNH 347017-347024 , AMNH 698401-698406 , AMNH 698407 , AMNH 698410, AMNH 347018, 347019
Event date
1932-05-15
Verbatim event date
1932-05-15
Scientific name authorship
Mayr
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Nectariniidae
Genus
Piprisoma
Species
tinctum
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype , paratype

References

  • Mayr, E. 1944. The birds of Timor and Sumba. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 83 (2): 123 - 194.
  • White, C. M. N., and M. D. Bruce. 1986. The birds of Wallacea. BOU Check-list no. 7. London: British Ornithologists' Union, 524 pp.
  • Cheke, R. A., and C. F. Mann. 2008 b. Family Dicaeidae (flowerpeckers). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 13: 350 - 389. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 880 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.
  • Mayr, E., and D. Amadon. 1947. A review of the Dicaeidae. American Museum Novitates 1360: 1 - 32.
  • Salomonsen, F. 1960 b. Notes on flowerpeckers (Aves, Dicaeidae). 2. The primitive species of the genus Dicaeum. American Museum Novitates 1991: 1 - 38.