Zosterops samoensis Murphy and Mathews
Authors/Creators
- 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Zosterops samoensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 11 (Savaii Island, Samoa).
Now Zosterops samoensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929. See Mees, 1969: 141–142, Watling, 2001: 165–166, and van Balen, 2008: 465.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 206312, adult female, collected on Savai’i Island, Western Samoa, on 23 May 1924, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 12729).
COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that they examined 24 specimens collected on Savai’i on 19 and 23 May 1924. The paratypes are: AMNH 206301–206311, 206313–206321, 206423, 222154, 222155. Of these, AMNH 206317 was exchanged to ZMB; AMNH 206319 was exchanged to NRM; and AMNH 206320 and 222154 were exchanged to ANSP. Four specimens were exchanged to Rothschild and renumbered when they returned to AMNH: AMNH 206303 (700785); AMNH 206309 (700787); AMNH 206313 (700786); and AMNH 206321 (700788).
According to Beck’s journal volume F, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored at Salailua Bay, 13.39S, 172.33W (Times Atlas), on 23 May 1924.
For a study of genetic and phenotypic divergence within and among populations of Zosterops flavifrons in Vanuatu, see Phillimore et al. (2008).
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- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF95FF9AFFBBFFCDFFFFFF873967FFA4 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03AC87E2FFA1FFD7FD57FDAF3DC0F996 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH , AMNH, ZMB , ANSP, AMNH , NRM
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 206301-206311, 206313-206321, 206423, 222154, 222155, AMNH 206317 , AMNH 206309 , AMNH 206312 , AMNH 206313 , AMNH 206319 , AMNH 206320, AMNH 206303 , AMNH 206321
- Event date
- 1924-05-19 , 1924-05-23
- Verbatim event date
- 1924-05-19/23 , 1924-05-23
- Scientific name authorship
- Murphy and Mathews
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Zosteropidae
- Genus
- Zosterops
- Species
- samoensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
References
- Murphy, R. C., and G. M. Mathews. 1929. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. VII. Zosteropidae. American Museum Novitates 356: 1 - 14.
- Mees, G. F. 1969. A systematic review of the Indo- Australian Zosteropidae (Part III). Zoologische Verhandelingen 102: 3 - 390.
- Watling, D. 2001. A guide to the birds of Fiji and western Polynesia, including American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna. Suva, Fiji: Environmental Consultants, 272 pp.
- van Balen, S. 2008. Family Zosteropidae (whiteeyes). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliot, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 402 - 485. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.
- Phillimore, A. B., I. P. F. Owens, R. A. Black, J. Chittock, T. Burke, and S. M. Clegg. 2008. Complex patterns of genetic and phenotypic divergence in an island bird and the consequences for delimiting conservation units. Molecular Ecology 17: 2839 - 2853.