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Zosterops flavifrons subsp. majuscula Murphy and Mathews
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- 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Zosterops flavifrons majuscula Murphy and Mathews
Zosterops flavifrons majuscula Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 5 (Aneiteum Island, New Hebrides Group).
Now Zosterops flavifrons majusculus Murphy and Mathews, 1929. See Mees, 1969: 135–136, Bregulla, 1992: 250–251, and van Balen, 2008: 465.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 212612, adult male, collected on Aneityum (5 Aneiteum) Island, 20.12S, 169.49E (USBGN, 1974c), Vanuatu (5 New Hebrides), on 10 June 1926, by Jose G. Correia on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 20918).
COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that they had two specimens from Aneityum. The paratype is AMNH 212613, female.
Notes
Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on page 28
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USBGN
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 212612
- Event date
- 1926-06-10
- Verbatim event date
- 1926-06-10
- Scientific name authorship
- Murphy and Mathews
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Zosteropidae
- Genus
- Zosterops
- Species
- majuscula
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- 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.
- Bregulla, H. L. 1992. Birds of Vanuatu. Oswestry, Shropshire, England: Anthony Nelson, 294 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.