Prionodura newtoniana subsp. fairfaxi Mathews
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Prionodura newtoniana fairfaxi Mathews
Prionodura newtoniana fairfaxi Mathews, 1915a: 133 (Bartlefrere, Queensland).
Now Prionodura newtoniana De Vis, 1883. See Mathews, 1926: 360–363; Hartert, 1929: 57; Mathews, 1930: 888; Mayr and Jennings, 1952: 4–5; Chisholm and Chaffer, 1956: 1–39; Gilliard, 1969: 318–325; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 626–627; Frith and Frith, 2004: 313–314; Christidis and Boles, 2008: 179–180; and Frith and Frith, 2009a: 396–397.
LECTOTYPE: AMNH 679468, adult male, collected on Mount Bartle Frere, 17.20S, 145.45E (Times Atlas), northern Queensland, Australia, on l 4 August 1909, by George Sharp. From the Mathews Collection (no. 5371) via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Mathews gave only the collecting locality of his type specimen in the original description. AMNH 679468 bears an unsigned original collector’s label, a Mathews Collection label marked ‘‘ Type’ ’ and ‘‘fairfaxi’’ in Mathews’ hand, and a Rothschild type label. The last two labels contain Mathews’ catalog number, although that was not cited in the original description. Mathews’ catalog gives Sharp as the collector. Hartert (1929a: 57) listed the single Mathews specimen collected on Mount Bartle Frere on 14 August 1909 as the type of fairfaxi, thereby designating it the lectotype. I have considered the following Mathews specimens collected on Mount Bartle Frere before 1915 to be paralectotypes although only a few of them have been found in his catalog: males, AMNH 679463, 24 April 1909, AMNH 679464, 18 April 1909, AMNH 679465, 25 April 1909, AMNH 679471 (Mathews no. 5369), 16 August 1909, AMNH 679476 (5370), 14 November 1909, AMNH 679477, 17 April 1909, AMNH 679478, 24 April 1909, all collected by G. Sharp. AMNH 679472, 21 April 1909, AMNH 679475, 19 April 1909, collected by A. Madoch. AMNH 679474 (3678), 10 November 1896, AMNH 679482 (3682), 8 August 1896, no original label. AMNH 679481 (5817), male immature, 7 June 1900; AMNH 679484 (5820), female, 11 June 1900, collected by E. Olive. AMNH 679477 bears a Mathews ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it served as a model for Mathews (1926: pl. 589, opp. p. 360; text p. 360) where it is said to be a specimen of fairfaxi but is not said to be the type.
AMNH 216489 and 216499 were exchanged to AMNH from Rothschild in 1927 and were collected by Sharp in April 1909; they may be paralectotypes, but there is no Rothschild or Mathews label on them. Other specimens were never in the Mathews Collection. Steinheimer (2005: 5) reported a paralectotype and a possible paralectotype in ZMB.
Based on mitochondrial cytochrome- b studies, Kusmierski et al. (1997) included Prionodura newtoniana in the genus Amblyornis, and this was followed by Christidis and Boles (2008: 179–180), but most authors have retained Prionodura, pending confirmation.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH , ZMB
- Event date
- 1896-08-08 , 1900-06-11 , 1909-08-04
- Family
- Ptilonorhynchidae
- Genus
- Prionodura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 216489 , AMNH 679468 , AMNH 679468, AMNH 679463, AMNH 679464, AMNH 679465, AMNH 679471, AMNH 679476, AMNH 679477, AMNH 679478, AMNH 679472, AMNH 679475, AMNH 679474, AMNH 679482, AMNH 679481 , AMNH 679484, AMNH 679477
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Mathews
- Species
- fairfaxi
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- lectotype , paralectotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1896-08-08/1909-11-14 , 1900-06-11 , 1909-08-04
References
- Mathews, G. M. 1915 a. Additions and corrections to my list of the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 2 (7): 123 - 133.
- Mathews, G. M. 1926. The birds of Australia, 12 (6 - 9): 226 - 406, pls. 571 - 595. London: H. F. & G. Witherby.
- Hartert, E. 1929 a. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. D. Gregory M. Mathews' types of Australian birds. I. Novitates Zoologicae 35: 42 - 58.
- Mathews, G. M. 1930. Systema avium australasianarum. London: British Ornithologists' Union, pt. 2, pp. 427 - 1048.
- Mayr, E., and K. Jennings. 1952. Geographic variation and plumages in Australian bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae). American Museum Novitates 1602: 1 - 18.
- Chisholm, A. H., and N. Chaffer. 1956. Observations on the Golden Bower-bird. Emu 56: 1 - 39.
- Gilliard, E. T. 1969. Birds of paradise and bower birds. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, xxii + 485 pp, pls, 32 photographs.
- Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.
- Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2004. The bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxiii + 508 pp, 8 pls., maps, photographs.
- Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.
- Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2009 a. Family Ptilonorhynchidae (bowerbirds). 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: 393 - 403. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp, 51 pls., photographs.
- Steinheimer, F. D. 2005. The type specimens of Paradisaeidae, Cnemophilidae and Ptilonorhynchidae (Aves) in the Museum fur Naturkunde of the Humboldt-University of Berlin. Zootaxa 1072: 1 - 25.
- Kusmierski, R., G. Borgia, A. Uy, and R. H. Crozier. 1997. Labile evolution of display traits in bowerbirds indicates reduced effects of phylogenetic constraint. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B., Biological Sciences 264: 307 - 313.