Ploceus melanoxanthus subsp. malensis Neumann
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Ploceus melanoxanthus malensis Neumann
Ploceus melanoxanthus malensis Neumann, 1904b: 162 (Barssa-Fluss im Male-Land).
Now Ploceus nigricollis melanoxanthus (Cabanis, 1878). See Neumann, 1904c: 338; Hartert, 1919: 138; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 39; Dickinson, 2003: 720; Fry and Keith, 2004: 115–117; and Craig, 2010: 162.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 724625, adult male, collected on the Barssa (= Schambala) River, Maleland, southern Ethiopia, on 19 January 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 626). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Neumann said that he collected a male and a female on the Barssa River, noting that the female did not differ from the female of nominate melanoxanthus and that the male was the type of malensis; the above specimen is so marked by Neumann. He also said that the specimens collected by Donaldson Smith on the Omo River probably also agreed with his new form.
Later, when Neumann (1904c: 338) treat- ed his entire collection, he noted that the two specimens in his type series were from the Schambala-Fluss. The locality on his original label is unclear and has been changed; it apparently was marked ‘‘Antote Fl.’’ originally and was changed to ‘‘Schambala’’ by Neumann. The locality given in his itinerary (Neumann, 1904c: 323) for 19 January 1901 is Adoshebaï Tal, and on 20– 23 January he was in ‘‘Male Land (Burssa und Schambala Fluss).’’ All of these localities are discussed by Neumann (1902b: 385– 386, map) and are shown on the map at about 05.30N, 37.00E.
The single paratype in AMNH is AMNH 724626, female, Barssa (= Schambala) River, Maleland, southern Ethiopia, 19 January 1901, collected by O. Neumann (no. 627).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 724625 , AMNH 724626
- Event date
- 1901-01-19
- Verbatim event date
- 1901-01-19
- Scientific name authorship
- Neumann
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Ploceidae
- Genus
- Ploceus
- Species
- malensis
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
References
- Neumann, O. 1904 b. Funf neue Vogel von Nordost-Afrika. Ornithologische Monatsberichte 12: 162 - 164.
- Neumann, O. 1904 c. Vogel von Schoa und Sud- Athiopien. Journal fur Ornithologie 52: 321 - 410.
- Hartert, E. 1919. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection. Novitates Zoologicae 26: 123 - 178.
- Moreau, R. E., and J. C. Greenway, Jr. 1962. Family Ploceidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Check-list of birds of the world, 15: 3 - 75. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
- 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.
- Craig, A. J. F. K. 2010. Family Ploceidae (weavers), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 15, weavers to New World warblers: 132 - 197. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp, 60 pls., photographs.
- Neumann, O. 1902 b. From the Somali coast through southern Ethiopia to the Sudan. Geographical Journal 20: 373 - 401, map.