Corvus cornix subsp. judaeus Meinertzhagen
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Corvus cornix judaeus Meinertzhagen
Corvus cornix judaeus Meinertzhagen, 1919: 85 (Bir Salem in southern Palestine).
Now Corvus corone sharpii Oates, 1889. See Meinertzhagen, 1926: 108; Hartert, 1928: 189; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 272; Madge and Burn, 1994: 159–161; Shirihai, 1996: 573–575; Dick- inson, 2003: 513; Dickinson et al., 2004c: 95– 102; and dos Anjos, 2009: 630–631.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 675118, adult male, collected at Bir Salem, near Lod (= Ludd), 31.58N, 34.54E (USBGN, 1970a), Israel, on 17 December 1918, by Richard Meinertzhagen. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Meinertzhagen designated as type of judaeus the only specimen in the Rothschild Collection bearing the above data, and noted that he examined seven specimens, three collected by his party and four in the Rothschild Collection. The holotype and one paratype are the only Meinertzhagen specimens of this form that came to AMNH; the following five specimens in AMNH, including the four from Rothschild, are paratypes: ‘‘Jordan, Palestine,’’ AMNH 675114, female, 1 December 1898, collected by Bacher; Rehobot, near Jaffa, AMNH 675115, male, 28 January 1911, AMNH 675116, female, 10 March 1911, AMNH 675117, sex?, 15 November 1910, all collected by J. Aharoni; Rafa, AMNH 675119, male, 27 September 1917, collected by Meinertzhagen.
Meinertzhagen (1926: 108–109) synonomized judaeus with sardonius, and more recently sardonius has been considered a synonym of sharpii (Dickinson, 2003: 513; dos Anjos, 2009: 630–631) but was recognized by Shirihai (1996: 573–575). Species limits are difficult to define due to hybridization. Madge and Burn (1994: 159–160) considered Corvus cornix a species in the superspecies Corvus corone; Dickinson (2003: 513) retained the broad species C. corone; dos Anjos (2009: 630–631) considered C. cornix a separate species.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH , USBGN
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 675114 , AMNH 675115, AMNH 675116, AMNH 675117 , AMNH 675118 , AMNH 675119
- Event date
- 1898-12-01 , 1910-11-15 , 1917-09-27 , 1918-12-17
- Verbatim event date
- 1898-12-01 , 1910-11-15/1911-03-10 , 1917-09-27 , 1918-12-17
- Scientific name authorship
- Meinertzhagen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Corvidae
- Genus
- Corvus
- Species
- judaeus
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
References
- Meinertzhagen, R. 1919. [Dr. Ernst Hartert … communicated the following notes and descriptions of two new subspecies, on behalf of Col. R. Meinertzhagen: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 39: 83 - 85.
- Meinertzhagen, R. 1926. Introduction to a review of the genus Corvus. Novitates Zoologicae 33: 57 - 121.
- Hartert, E. 1928. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. C. Additional and overlooked types. Novitates Zoologicae 34: 189 - 230.
- Blake, E. R., and C. Vaurie. 1962. Family Corvidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Check-list of birds of the world, 15: 204 - 282. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
- Madge, S., and H. Burn. 1994. Crows and jays. A guide to the crows, jays and magpies of the world. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 191 pp, 30 pls., maps.
- Shirihai, H. 1996. The birds of Israel. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, Inc., 692 pp, 96 pls., maps.
- Dickinson, E. C., S. Eck, and J. Martens. 2004 c. Systematic notes on Asian birds. 44. A preliminary review of the Corvidae. Zoologische Verhandelingen 350: 85 - 109.
- dos Anjos, L. 2009. Family Corvidae (crows). 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: 566 - 640. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp. 51 pls., photographs.
- Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.