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Myzomela pectoralis subsp. incerta Mathews

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Myzomela pectoralis incerta Mathews

Myzomela pectoralis incerta Mathews, 1912a: 396 (Cape York, Queensland).

Now Cissomela pectoralis (Gould, 1841). See Salomonsen, 1967: 436, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 329–330, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 659–660.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 693398, adult male, collected on Cape York, Queensland, Australia. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3027) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘North Queensland (Cape York).’’ The holotype bears a Mathews Collection and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. All other Cape York specimens in AMNH either were collected after the 31 January 1912 publication of incerta or were never in Mathews’ collection.

Schodde and Mason (1999: 329–330), while tentatively including this species in the genus Certhionyx, placed it in the subgenus Cissomela. Subsequent molecular studies by Driskell and Christidis (2004) indicated that the three species Schodde and Mason placed in Certhionyx, but in different subgenera, were paraphyletic in three different clades within the Meliphagidae; Christidis and Boles (2008: 188) elevated each of the subgenera given by Schodde and Mason to monotypic genera.

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 153-154

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Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Material sample ID
AMNH 693398
Scientific name authorship
Mathews
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Meliphagidae
Genus
Myzomela
Species
incerta
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype

References

  • Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.
  • Salomonsen, F. 1967. Family Meliphagidae. In R. A. Paynter, Jr (editor), Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 12: 338 - 450. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, ix + 495 pp.
  • Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.
  • Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp.
  • Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.
  • Driskell, A. C., and L. Christidis. 2004. Phylogeny and evolution of the Australo-Papuan honeyeaters (Passeriformes, Meliphagidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 943 - 960.