Falcinellus striatus subsp. atratus Rothschild and Hartert
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Falcinellus striatus atratus Rothschild and Hartert
Falcinellus striatus atratus Rothschild and Hartert, 1911: 160 (Mt. Goliath, at altitudes of not less than 5000 ft).
Now Epimachus fastosus atratus (Rothschild and Hartert, 1911). See Hartert, 1919: 130; Mayr, 1941; 1962d: 190; Gilliard, 1969: 137–141; Diamond, 1972: 328; Cracraft, 1992: 19; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 517; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 479.
LECTOTYPE: AMNH 677957, adult male, collected on Mount Goliath, 04.41S, 139.50E (Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569), Pegunungan Jayawijaya (= Oranje Mountains), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 12 January 1911, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5100). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, with both male and female described. Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 522) listed one adult male, two juvenile males, three adult females, one juvenile female, along with Meek’s field numbers. All these specimens would have been available to Rothschild and Hartert when atratus was described. Hartert (1919: 130), by listing the adult male bearing Meek’s no. 5100 as the type, designated it the lectotype. Paralectotypes, all from Mount Goliath, are: AMNH 677958 (Meek no. 5369), female; AMNH 677959 (5401), immature male; AMNH 677960 (5370), AMNH 677961 (5126), AMNH 677962 (5306), females; AMNH 677963 (5413), immature female, all collected in January and February 1911 by Meek.
During his collecting in western New Guinea, Meek was accompanying Dutch exploratory expeditions (Rothschild and Hartert, 1913; LeCroy and Jansen, 2011: 182–183). No doubt as a gesture of appreciation, an adult male specimen was sent by Meek to the ‘‘Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies’’ (Rothschild and Hartert, 1913: 522); this specimen was not part of the type series.
In the ornithological literature, the species name has been variously spelled fastosus and fastuosus. Hermann (1783: 194) described this species as Promerops fastuosus but later, on page 202 of the same publication, corrected the spelling to fastosus, as noted by Frith and Frith (2009b: 479). For use of Epimachus instead of Falcinellus, see Laubmann (1920: 160); and for use of fastosus instead of striatus, see Stresemann (1920: 328).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1911-01-12
- Family
- Grallinidae
- Genus
- Falcinellus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 677957
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Rothschild and Hartert
- Species
- atratus
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- lectotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1911-01-12
References
- Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1911. Preliminary descriptions of some new birds from central New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 159 - 160.
- Hartert, E. 1919. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection. Novitates Zoologicae 26: 123 - 178.
- Mayr, E. 1941. List of New Guinea birds. New York: American Museum of Natural History, xi + 260 pp.
- Mayr, E. 1962 d. Family Paradisaeidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). 1962. Checklist of birds of the world, 15: 181 - 204. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
- Gilliard, E. T. 1969. Birds of paradise and bower birds. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, xxii + 485 pp, pls, 32 photographs.
- Diamond, J. M. 1972. Avifauna of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. Pblications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, no. 12. Cambridge, MA: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 438 pp.
- Cracraft, J. 1992. The species of the birds-ofparadise (Paradisaeidae): applying the phylogenetic species concept to a complex pattern of diversification. Cladistics 8: 1 - 43.
- Frith, C. B., and B. M. Beehler. 1998. The birds of paradise Paradisaeidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxx + 613 pp, 15 pls, black-and-white illustrations, maps, sonograms.
- Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2009 b. Family Paradisaeidae (birds-of-paradise). Species accounts. 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: 461 - 492. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp, 51 pls., photographs.
- Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1913. List of the collections of birds made by Albert S. Meek in the lower ranges of the Snow Mountains, on the Eilanden River, and on Mount Goliath during the years 1910 and 1911. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 473 - 527.
- LeCroy, M., and J. J. F. J. Jansen. 2011. Jo [h] annes Maximiliaan Dumas, bird collector in the East Indies and New Guinea. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 1131: 171 - 188.
- Hermann, J. 1783. Tabula affinitatum animalium. Argentorati: Joh. Georgii Treuttel.
- Laubmann, A. 1920. Kritische Untersuchungen uber die Genotypfixierungen in Lesson's '' Manuel d'Ornithologie' ' 1828. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A, Heft 4: 137 - 168.
- Stresemann, E. 1920. The new names in J. Hermann's Tabula affinitatum animalium. Novitates Zoologicae 27: 327 - 332.