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Certhia himalayana subsp. cedricola Koelz

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

Description

Certhia himalayana cedricola Koelz

Certhia himalayana cedricola Koelz, 1939: 65 (Jalalabad, Afghanistan).

Now Certhia himalayana himalayana Vigors, 1832. See Vaurie, 1957b: 13–14, and Harrap, 2008c: 184–185.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 466895, adult female, collected at Jalalabad, 34.26N, 70.25E (Times Atlas), Afghanistan, on 18 December 1937, by Walter Koelz.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Koelz designated as type a female specimen collected on 18 December 1937 at Jalalabad, with wing measuring 67 mm. The above specimen collected on that date has a wing measuring 67 mm and is marked ‘‘Type’’ by Koelz. He (Koelz, 1939: 65) gave inclusive wing measurements for five male and five female specimens but listed only eight paratypes, by locality, all collected in 1937. The following paratypes came to AMNH: Jalalabad, AMNH 466894, female, 18 December, wing measuring 66 mm and with no type annotations; AMNH 466897, male, 18 December; Sirotai, AMNH 466899, female, 18 June; AMNH 466900, female, 19 June; AMNH 466901, male, 17 June; Farajghan Pass, AMNH 466902, male, 6 June; Kail, AMNH 466903, male, 3 June. Two unsexed specimens, AMNH 466896 and AMNH 466898, collected at Jalalabad on 19 December 1937, were not listed as paratypes by Koelz.

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 96

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Event date
1937-12-18 , 1937-12-19
Family
Certhiidae
Genus
Certhia
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 466894 , AMNH 466895 , AMNH 466897 , AMNH 466899 , AMNH 466900 , AMNH 466901 , AMNH 466902 , AMNH 466903, AMNH 466896, AMNH 466898
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Koelz
Species
cedricola
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
1937-12-18 , 1937-12-19

References

  • Koelz, W. 1939. New birds from Asia, chiefly from India. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 52: 61 - 82.
  • Vaurie, C. 1957 b. Systematic notes on Palearctic birds. No. 30. The Certhiidae. American Museum Novitates 1855: 1 - 14.
  • Harrap, S. 2008 c. Family Certhiidae (treecreepers). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 13: 166 - 187. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 880 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.