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Ptilotis sonora subsp. walgetti Mathews

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

Description

Ptilotis sonora walgetti Mathews

Ptilotis sonora walgetti Mathews, 1912a: 405 (New South Wales).

Now Lichenostomus virescens sonorus (Gould, 1841). See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 234– 235, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 598.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694813, adult female, collected at Walgett, 30.03S, 148.10E (Times Atlas), New South Wales, Australia, in October 1908. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3200) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of walgetti as ‘‘ New South Wales.’’ The holotype bears Mathews Collection and type labels and a Rothschild type label; the number ‘‘772’’ on Mathews’ collection label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). In addition to the type, Mathews had two other New South Wales specimens, both from Walgett: paratypes, AMNH 694814 (Mathews no. 3199), female?, October 1908; and AMNH 694815 (3198), male, March 1906. A specimen collected by J.B. Cleland on 14 September 1911 was cataloged by Mathews on 27 February 1912 and is not a paratype. This specimen was cataloged between specimens from Melville Island collected by J.P. Rogers and specimens received from R. Collett, two collections that Mathews (1912b: 25–26) said had arrived after the publication of Mathews (1912a) in which walgetti was named.

Salomonsen (1967: 374) included virescens in the genus Meliphaga and considered walgetti a synonym of M. v. virescens.

Notes

Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on page 80

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Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Family
Meliphagidae
Genus
Ptilotis
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 694813
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Mathews
Species
walgetti
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.
  • Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.
  • Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.
  • Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.
  • Mathews, G. M. 1908. Handlist of the birds of Australasia. Emu 7 supplement: 1 - 108.
  • Mathews, G. M. 1912 b. Additions and corrections to my reference list to the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 1: 25 - 52.
  • Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.