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Zosterops virens subsp. somereni Hartert

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History

Description

Zosterops virens somereni Hartert

Zosterops virens somereni Hartert, 1928: 207 (Mount Kenya, above Chuka).

Now Zosterops poliogastrus kikuyuensis Sharpe, 1891. See Moreau, 1967: 332, Fry et al., 2000: 316–317, and van Balen, 2008: 473.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 699402, adult male, collected above Chuka, 00.20S, 37.38E (Polhill, 1988), Mount Kenya, Kenya, on 15 January 1921, by Noel van Someren. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert designated as type the only male specimen in the Rothschild Collection collected at Chuka on 15 January and noted that he had 12 specimens collected by Noel van Someren and two collected by J. Makinder (so spelled on his own label). There were, in fact, 12 specimens in addition to the holotype collected by Noel van Someren. The 14 paratypes are: above Chuka, AMNH 699401, 699403–699406, collected 15–17 January 1922, by Noel van Someren; Mount Kenya, 10,000 ft, west slope, AMNH 699407, 699408, collected 10 September 1899, by H.J. Makinder (nos. 72 and 73); Meru, AMNH 699409–699415, collected 22 December 1920 – 10 January 1921, by Noel van Someren.

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 pages 43-44

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Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Material sample ID
AMNH 699401, 699403-699406 , AMNH 699402 , AMNH 699407, 699408 , AMNH 699409-699415
Event date
1899-09-10 , 1920-12-22 , 1921-01-15 , 1922-01-15
Verbatim event date
1899-09-10 , 1920-12-22/1921-01-10 , 1921-01-15 , 1922-01-15/17
Scientific name authorship
Hartert
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Zosteropidae
Genus
Zosterops
Species
somereni
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype

References

  • Hartert, E. 1928. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. C. Additional and overlooked types. Novitates Zoologicae 34: 189 - 230.
  • Moreau, R. E. 1967. Family Zosteropidae, African and Indian Ocean taxa. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 326 - 337. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.
  • Fry, C. H., S. Keith, and E. K. Urban (editors). 2000. The birds of Africa. Vol. 6. London: Academic Press, 724 pp, 36 pls.
  • 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.
  • Polhill, D. 1988. Flora of tropical East Africa. Index of collecting localities. Kew, UK: Royal Botanic Gardens, 398 pp.