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Rhipidura albina Rothschild and Hartert

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Rhipidura albina Rothschild and Hartert

Rhipidura albina Rothschild and Hartert, 1901b: 183 (Kulambangra).

Now Rhipidura cockerelli albina Rothschild and Hartert, 1901. See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 392, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 240.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 651725, adult male, collected on Kolombangara (5 Kulambangra) Island, 08.00S, 157.10E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 13 March 1901, by Albert S. Meek (no. 2872). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert had the single specimen and noted that it had scattered white feathers in head and throat that were apparently aberrant.

Notes

Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 223, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808

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Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Material sample ID
AMNH 651725
Event date
1901-03-13
Verbatim event date
1901-03-13
Scientific name authorship
Rothschild and Hartert
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Rhipiduridae
Genus
Rhipidura
Species
albina
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype

References

  • Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1901 b. List of a collection of birds from Kulambangra and Florida islands, in the Solomons Group. Novitates Zoologicae 8: 180 - 189.
  • Mayr, E., and J. M. Diamond. 2001. The birds of northern Melanesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 492 pp.
  • del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, and D. A. Christie (editors). 2006. Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 11. Old World flycatchers to Old World warblers. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 798 pp. 55 pls.