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Strepera graculina subsp. ashbyi Mathews 1913

Creators

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

Description

Strepera graculina ashbyi Mathews

Strepera graculina ashbyi Mathews, 1913b: 78 (Black Spur, Victoria).

Now Strepera graculina ashbyi Mathews, 1913. See Amadon, 1951: 25–27; 1962b: 170; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 551–554; Dickinson, 2003: 463; and Russell and Rowley, 2009: 340–341.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673622, female, collected at Black Spur, Victoria, Australia, on 8 May 1901, from the Edwin Ashby Collection. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3728) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave the type locality and the date of collection; his collection label is marked ‘‘Type’’ by him and his catalog number is written on it but was not given in the description. No other specimens or localities were mentioned.

See comments below under Neostrepera versicolor riordani.

Notes

Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 76, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Material sample ID
AMNH 673622
Event date
1901-05-08
Verbatim event date
1901-05-08
Scientific name authorship
Mathews
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cracticidae
Genus
Strepera
Species
ashbyi
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Strepera graculina subsp. ashbyi Mathews, 1913 sec. Lecroy, 2014

References

  • Mathews, G. M. 1913 b. New species and subspecies of Australian birds. Austral Avian Record 2: 73 - 79.
  • Mathews, G. M. 1913 a. A list of the birds of Australia. London: Witherby and Co., 453 pp.
  • Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.
  • Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
  • Russell, E. M., and I. C. R. Rowley. 2009. Family Cracticidae (butcherbirds). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 14, Bush-shrikes to Old World sparrows: 308 - 342. Barcelona: Lynx Editions, 893 pp, 51 pls., photographs.