Chlamydera maculata subsp. carteri Mathews
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
[Chlamydera maculata nova Mathews] [Chlamydera maculata carteri Mathews]
Chlamydera maculata nova Mathews, 1920: 76 (North-west Cape, Mid-west Australia).
Chlamydera maculata carteri Mathews in Carter and Mathews, 1920: 499.
Now Chlamydera guttata carteri Mathews, 1920.
Mathews (1920: 76) introduced C. m. nova and designated as the type a specimen collected on ‘‘ North-west Cape, Mid-west Australia’’ on 7 August 1916. AMNH 679152, female, collected at Hooroomooroo, North West Cape, by Tom Carter, bears an AMNH type label, but the date on this specimen is 6 August 1916, and it is therefore not the type even though it was collected by Carter on the same collecting trip. Hartert (1929a: 55–57) did not list a type in the Rothschild Collection for nova and no specimen was so cataloged when the Rothschild Collection came to New York.
An illustrated account of nova was published by Carter and Mathews (1920: 499) and in an initialed footnote, Mathews offered carteri as a replacement name for C. maculata nova if it and Alphachlamydera cerviniventris nova Mathews, 1915, were both included in Chlamydera. C. maculata nova and C. maculata carteri share the same type.
Frith and Frith (1997) traced the six specimens that Carter (in Carter and Mathews, 1921: 75–79) secured and found that there were two collected on 7 August, but one was marked ‘‘ nova type.’’ They designated this specimen, HLW 6591 in MV, as the lectotype of Chlamydera maculata nova (not of Chlamydera guttata carteri, although the two names automatically share the same type).
AMNH 679152 remains in the AMNH type collection because it bears a type label, but an added label explains its nontype status. Only 7 August 1916 was mentioned in the original description; the second specimen in MV collected on that date would be the paralectotype.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH , MV
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 679152
- Event date
- 1916-08-07
- Verbatim event date
- 1916-08-07
- Scientific name authorship
- Mathews
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Ptilonorhynchidae
- Genus
- Chlamydera
- Species
- maculata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- paralectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chlamydera maculata (Gould, 1837) sec. Lecroy, 2014
References
- Mathews, G. M. 1920. [Mr. Gregory M. Mathews sent the following descriptions of new subspecies of Australian birds: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 40: 75 - 76.
- Carter, T., and G. M. Mathews. 1920. On a new species of bower-bird. Ibis (11) 2: 499, pl. XIV.
- 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. 1915 a. Additions and corrections to my list of the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 2 (7): 123 - 133.
- Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 1997. Chlamydera guttula carteri Mathews, 1920 - an overlooked subspecies of Western Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchidae) from North West Cape, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 225 - 231.
- Carter, T., with nomenclature and remarks by G. M. Mathews. 1921. On some Western Australian birds collected between the North-West Cape and Albany (950 miles apart). (contd.). Ibis (11) 3: 48 - 81.