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Phalacrocorax neglectus

Creators

  • 1. Research Associate, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701 South Africa. wrjdean 01 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6541 - 3565 & Wolwekraal Conservation and Research Organisation, P. O. Box 47, Prince Albert 6930, South Africa. & South African Environmental Observation Network, Arid Lands Node, Kimberley, South Africa.
  • 2. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Zoology, Box 50007, SE- 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.

Description

Graculus neglectus Wahlberg, 1855: 214.

VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Ad insulas orae occidentalis Africae meridionalis, ut Possession, Halifax, Ichaboe & c. sat frequens. ”

CURRENT STATUS: Phalacrocorax neglectus (Wahlberg, 1855/1856?); Phalacrocoracidae (Dickinson & Remsen 2013: 197).

TYPE MATERIAL: From Wahlberg’s original description (1855: 214) it is obvious that he had several specimens (“ sat frequens ”) of both sexes and at different ages for study. AccordingtoSundevall’sacquisitioncatalogueseven specimenswerereceivedin1857 from South Africa after Wahlberg’s death. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 96) referred to NRM 569893 [11817] as “type”, here treated as a lectotype designation of this male collected 11 April 1854 on Ichaboe Island. The six paralectotypes are: NRM 90101844 [11815], a male collected 11 April 1854 on Ichaboe Island; NRM 536788 [11818], a mount of a juvenile male collected 11 April 1854 on Ichaboe Island; NRM 90101846 [11819], a juvenile female collected 4 Apr 1854 on Penguin Island; NRM 90200198 [11820], a juvenile female collected 4 Apr 1854 on Penguin Island; NRM 554496 [11821], a pullus collected 11 Apr 1854 on Ichaboe Island; and UMB 9678 [11816], a male, data unknown, sent on exchange to Bremen in 1858.

VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Ichaboe Island, Namibia.

COMMENTS: Locality and date appear to be correct.

Notes

Published as part of Dean, W. Richard J., Åhlander, Erik & Johansson, Ulf S., 2022, Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa, pp. 521-560 in Zootaxa 5134 (4) on pages 527-528, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5134.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6541737

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0384EA10F773B133B1D2F89031324123

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5134.4.3 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/6541737 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFBD9268F775B134B145FFFF32394342 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/79D78E49-C127-4EB8-BEA2-784B0BC65363 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/0384EA10F773B133B1D2F89031324123 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/195304170 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/55543/taxon/0384EA10F773B133B1D2F89031324123.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
VERIFIED
Family
Phalacrocoracidae
Genus
Phalacrocorax
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Suliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Wahlberg
Species
neglectus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Phalacrocorax neglectus (Wahlberg, 1855) sec. Dean, Åhlander & Johansson, 2022

References

  • Dickinson, E. C. & Remsen, J. V. (2013) The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4 th Edition. Vol. 1. Non-passerines. Aves Press, Eastbourne, 461 pp.
  • Gyldenstolpe, N. (1926) Types of birds in the Royal Natural History Museum in Stockholm. Arkiv f or Zoologi, 19, 1 - 116.