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Corvus corax subsp. richardsoni Miller and Griscom
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Corvus corax richardsoni Miller and Griscom
Corvus corax richardsoni Miller and Griscom, 1925: 5 (San Rafael del Norte (4100 ft.), Nicaragua).
Now Corvus corax sinuatus Wagler, 1829. See Hellmayr, 1934: 2; Monroe, 1968: 282–283;
Dickinson, 2003: 514; dos Anjos, 2009: 638; and Martínez and Will, 2010: 75–76.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 144788, female, collected at San Rafael del Norte, 4100 ft, 13.12N, 86.06W (Times Atlas), Nicaragua, on 2 April 1917, by W. DeW. Miller, L. Griscom, and W.B. Richardson.
COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description; a single specimen was collected.
Hellmayr (1934: 2) synonymized richardsoni with sinuatus, and subsequent authors have agreed.
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 pages 132-133, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 144788
- Event date
- 1917-04-02
- Verbatim event date
- 1917-04-02
- Scientific name authorship
- Miller and Griscom
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Corvidae
- Genus
- Corvus
- Species
- richardsoni
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
References
- Miller, W. deW., and L. Griscom. 1925. Further notes on Central American birds, with descriptions of new forms. American Museum Novitates 184: 1 - 16.
- Hellmayr, C. E. 1934. Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Part VII. Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 330, Zoological Series, 13: 531.
- Monroe, B. L., Jr. 1968. A distributional survey of the birds of Honduras. American Ornithologists' Union, Ornithological Monographs 7, 458 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.
- 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.