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Passer griseus subsp. mosambicus van Someren
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Passer griseus mosambicus van Someren
Passer griseus mosambicus van Someren, 1921b: 114 (Lumbo, Portuguese E. Africa).
Now Passer diffusus mosambicus van Someren, 1921. See Hartert, 1928: 198; Dickinson, 2003: 717; Fry and Keith, 2004: 7–9; and Summers- Smith, 2009: 803–804.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 719795, adult female, collected at Lumbo, 15.00S, 40.40E (Times Atlas), Mozambique (= Portuguese East Africa), on 13 July 1918. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Van Someren designated the holotype in the original description and said that he had six specimens from northern Mozambique and eastern Nyasaland. The type is the only van Someren specimen that came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.
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 10, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- V.G.L. van Someren
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 719795
- Event date
- 1918-07-13
- Verbatim event date
- 1918-07-13
- Scientific name authorship
- van Someren
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passeridae
- Genus
- Passer
- Species
- mosambicus
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
References
- van Someren, V. G. L. 1921 b. [Dr. van Someren sent the following descriptions of new African birds, the types of which are in the Tring Museum: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 41: 112 - 115.
- van Someren, V. G. L. 1921 a. [Dr. V. J. L. van Someren sent descriptions of the following African birds, the types of which are in the Tring Museum: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 41: 102 - 106.
- Hartert, E. 1928. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. C. Additional and overlooked types. Novitates Zoologicae 34: 189 - 230.
- Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
- Fry, C. H. and S. Keith (editors). 2004. The birds of Africa, vol. 7. Princeton: Princeton University Press, xxi + 666 pp, 36 pls.