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Pitohui nigrescens subsp. wandamensis Hartert

  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)

Description

Pitohui nigrescens wandamensis Hartert

Pitohui nigrescens wandamensis Hartert, 1930b: 59 (Wondiwoi).

Now Pitohui nigrescens wandamensis Hartert, 1930. See Dickinson, 2003: 490, Boles, 2007: 435, and Dumbacher et al., 2008.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 656570, adult female, collected in the Wondiwoi Mountains, inland from Wasior, 02.38S, 134.27E (Times Atlas), on the peninsula that juts out to the east of Wandamen Bay, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 9 July 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 1410). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description. He had one additional specimen, paratype AMNH 294178, adult male, collected in the Wondiwoi Mountains on 14 July 1928 by Ernst Mayr (no. 1511). Mayr’s expedition was sponsored jointly by Walter Rothschild and by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH. The paratype came directly to AMNH and the holotype came in 1932 with the purchase of the Rothschild Collection. See Mayr (1930: 24) for an account of his collecting in the Wondiwoi Mountains.

Notes

Published as part of Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333) on page 60

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Event date
1928-07-09
Family
Oriolidae
Genus
Pitohui
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 656570
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Hartert
Species
wandamensis
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1928-07-09

References

  • Hartert, E. 1930 b. III. List of the birds collected by Ernst Mayr. Novitates Zoologicae 36: 27 - 128.
  • Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard & Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
  • Boles, W. E. 2007. Family Pachycephalidae. In: J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. A. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 12: 374 - 437. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 816 pp., 56 pls, 436 photographs.
  • Dumbacher, J. P., K. Deiner, L. Thompson, and R. C. Fleischer. 2008. Phylogeny of the avian genus Pitohui and the evolution of toxicity in birds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 774 - 781.
  • Mayr, E. 1930. My Dutch New Guinea expedition, 1928. Novitates Zoologicae 36: 20 - 26.