Icterus gularis subsp. troglodytes Griscom 1930
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Description
Icterus gularis troglodytes Griscom
Icterus gularis troglodytes Griscom, 1930: 13 (San Felipe, Retalhuleu, Pacific slope of Guatemala).
Now Icterus gularis mentalis Lesson, 1831. See Griscom, 1932: 396; Hellmayr, 1937: 148; Blake,
1968: 156; Dickinson, 2003: 771; Dickerman, 2007: 35–38; and Fraga, 2011: 765.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 399358, adult male, collected at San Felipe, 2500 ft, 14.40N, 91.30W (Times atlas), Retalhuleu, Pacific slope of Guatemala, on 7 December 1919, by Austin Paul Smith (no. 19209). From the Johathan Dwight Collection (no. 56504).
COMMENTS: Griscom cited the Dwight number of the holotype in the original description, and noted (on p. 14) that he had 29 specimens from Ocos to San José (including the type), one male from Antigua and one male from San Lucas. Later, he (Griscom, 1932: 396) listed these 31 specimens by locality. Of the 30 paratypes, the following 21 are in AMNH: Finca El Cipres, AMNH 398723, 398725–398730, two males, one immature male, four females, 23 July–24 August 1924; Antigua, AMNH 398724, male, 6 June 1924; Hacienda California, AMNH 398731–398736, 398738, two males, four females, one immature female, 7 June–3 July 1926, 29 September 1927; Ocos, AMNH 398739, male (as on label), AMNH 398740, female, 14–16 October 1927; San Lucas, AMNH 398737, male, 27 May 1927, all collected by A.W. Anthony. Pantaleon, AMNH 399356, male, 18 October 1919; San Felipe, AMNH 399357, female, 5 December 1919; San Jose´, AMNH 399359, male, 29 January 1920, all collected by Austin Paul Smith.
Hellmayr (1937: 148) noted that Icterus mentalis Lesson, 1831, could not be identified with certainty because the type locality was not recorded and recognized instead I. g. tamaulipensis Ridgway, 1901. Blake (1968: 156) and Dickinson (2003: 771) apparently accepted Hellmayr’s analysis and listed tamaulipensis, yucatanensis, and troglodytes as valid subspecies of Icterus gularis without mentioning mentalis; Dickerman (2007: 35– 38) accepted mentalis Lesson, 1831, as a valid name, restricted the type locality to the city of Veracruz and considered yucatanensis, tamaulipensis, and troglodytes to be synonyms of mentalis. This was accepted by Fraga (2011: 765).
As in the previous form, the collection was divided between AMNH and MCZ before it was cataloged. The remaining paratypes are probably at MCZ. See Casto and Burke (2010: 13) for information on Austin Paul Smith.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1919-10-18 , 1919-12-05 , 1919-12-07 , 1920-01-29 , 1924-06-06 , 1924-07-23 , 1927-10-14
- Family
- Icteridae
- Genus
- Icterus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 398723, 398725-398730 , AMNH 398724 , AMNH 398731-398736, 398738 , AMNH 398737, AMNH 399356 , AMNH 398739, AMNH 398740 , AMNH 399357 , AMNH 399358 , AMNH 399359
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Griscom
- Species
- troglodytes
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1919-10-18/1927-05-27 , 1919-12-05 , 1919-12-07 , 1920-01-29 , 1924-06-06 , 1924-07-23/08-24 , 1927-10-14/16
- Taxonomic concept label
- Icterus gularis subsp. troglodytes Griscom, 1930 sec. LeCroy, 2013
References
- Griscom, L. 1930. Studies from the Dwight collection of Guatemala birds. III. American Museum Novitates 438: 1 - 18.
- Griscom, L. 1932. The distribution of bird-life in Guatemala: a contribution to a study of the origin of Central American bird-life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 64: i-ix, 1 - 439, 11 figs., 2 maps.
- Hellmayr, C. E. 1937. Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Icteridae. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 381, Zoological Series, volume 13, Part 10, v + 228 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.
- Dickerman, R. W. 2007. Birds of the southern Pacific lowlands of Guatemala with a review of Icterus gularis. Special Publication of the Museum of Southwestern Biology 7: 1 - 45.
- Fraga, R. M. 2011. Family Icteridae (New World blackbirds), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world, vol. 16, tanagers to New World blackbirds: 747 - 807. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp., 81 pls., photographs.
- Casto, S. D., and H. R. Burke. 2010. Austin Paul Smith. The life of a natural history collector and horticulturist. Seguin, TX: privately printed, 36 pp., 6 figs.