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Aquila braccata Meyen 1834

Description

Aquila braccata Meyen, 1834a: 65, pl. 8.

Now: Buteo polyosoma polyosoma (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824). See Hellmayr & Conover (1949: 85).

Holotype: ZMB 663 (Lichtenstein 1832, Nr. 51 sub “ Falco pterocles ”), skin, collected by Meyen in “ Maerz ” [= 11 Mar 1831; see Meyen 1834b: 377] in “ Chile ” [= Río Copiapó, ca. 15 km from its mouth, Chile; see below].

Type locality. “Das nördliche Chile ” according to Meyen (1834a: 66), who specified (p. 66) that he shot the holotype “ in der Desierta de Copiapó, im März” (“in the Copiapó desert, in March”). Meyen (1834b: 377) further specified that he collected the holotype where the old road from Caldera to Copiapó entered the riverbed of Río Copiapó, which is an unnamed place lying ca. 15 km from the mouth of Río Copiapó. We thus ascertain the type locality as Río Copiapó, ca. 15 km from its mouth, Chile [ca. 27.34°S, 70.78°W].

Notes

Published as part of Mlíkovský, Jiří & Frahnert, Sylke, 2017, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected during F. J. F. Meyen's circumnavigation in 1830 – 1832, pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 4250 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4250.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/439779

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZMB
Material sample ID
ZMB 663
Event date
1831-03-11
Verbatim event date
1831-03-11
Scientific name authorship
Meyen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Accipitriformes
Family
Accipitridae
Genus
Aquila
Species
braccata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Aquila braccata Meyen, 1834 sec. Mlíkovský & Frahnert, 2017

References

  • Meyen, F. J. F. (1834 a) Vogel. In: Meyen, F. J. F. (Ed.), Beitrage zur Zoologie, gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher, 8 (Supplement), pp. 59 - 124.
  • Hellmayr, C. E. & Conover, B. (1949) Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 13, 1 (4), i - vi, 1 - 358.
  • Lichtenstein, M. H. C. (1832) Verzeichniss der von dem Herrn Dr. Meyen Mitgebrachten Saugethieren und Vogeln. (19. May 1932). Zool. Mus., Signatur: S I, Meyen, F. J. F., Museum fur Naturkunde zu Berlin, Historische Bild- u. Schriftgutsammlungen, Bestand, 2 pp.
  • Meyen, F. J. F. (1834 b) Reise um die Erde Ausgefuhrt auf dem Koniglich Preussischen Seehandlungs-Schiffe Prinzess Louise, Commandirt von Capitain W. Wendt, in den Jahren 1830, 1831 und 1832. Vol. 1. Historischer Bericht. Sander'sche Buchhandlung, Berlin, viii + 493 pp.