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Peneothello sigillatus subsp. hagenensis Mayr and Gilliard

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Description

Peneothello sigillatus hagenensis Mayr and Gilliard

Peneothello sigillatus hagenensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1952: 4 (Summit Camp, Mt. Hagen, Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).

Now Peneothello sigillata hagenensis Mayr and Gilliard, 1952. See Coates, 1990: 198, and Dickinson, 2003: 519.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348397, [adult male], collected at the summit camp, 11,000 ft, Mount Hagen, 05.45S, 144.05E (Times Atlas), Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, on 23 July 1950, by E.T. Gilliard.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Measurements were given for three males, one female, and four of unknown sex. The type series comprised 10 specimens; the nine paratypes are three males, one female, and five of unknown sex, AMNH 705307– 705315, all from 8200 ft and above on Mount Hagen, collected 2–20 July 1950. AMNH 705310 was sent to AM in 1953 and AMNH 705314 was exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s. For the results of Gilliard’s 1950 and 1952 expeditions to New Guinea, see Mayr and Gilliard (1954).

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 260, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808

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Biodiversity

Collection code
AM, FMNH , AMNH
Material sample ID
AMNH 348397 , AMNH 705307- 705315, AMNH 705310, AMNH 705314
Event date
1950-07-02 , 1950-07-23
Verbatim event date
1950-07-02/20 , 1950-07-23
Scientific name authorship
Mayr and Gilliard
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Petroicidae
Genus
Peneothello
Species
hagenensis
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype , paratype

References

  • Mayr, E., and E. T. Gilliard. 1952. Six new subspecies of birds from the highlands of New Guinea. American Museum Novitates 1577: 1 - 8.
  • Coates, B. J. 1990. The birds of Papua New Guinea. Vol. 2. Passerines. Alderley, Queensland: Dove Publications, 576 pp.
  • Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
  • Mayr, E., and E. T. Gilliard. 1954. Birds of central New Guinea. Results of the American Museum of Natural History expeditions to New Guinea in 1950 and 1952. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 103 (4): 311 - 374.