Zosterops capensis subsp. capensis Sundevall 1850
- 1. Research Associate, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701 South Africa. wrjdean 01 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6541 - 3565 & Wolwekraal Conservation and Research Organisation, P. O. Box 47, Prince Albert 6930, South Africa. & South African Environmental Observation Network, Arid Lands Node, Kimberley, South Africa.
- 2. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Zoology, Box 50007, SE- 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
Description
VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Habitat in regione urbis Capensis, ubi frequens videtur; non e Caffraria nobis alata.”
CURRENT STATUS: Zosterops capensis capensis Sundevall, 1850; Zosteropidae (Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 520), includes atmorii Sharpe, 1877, and virens Sundevall.
TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 102) mentioned both male and female in his type description. His acquisition catalogue lists two specimens received from Wahlberg. Possible syntypes are two older specimens received in 1837 from Jacob Letterstedt (1796–1862), the Swedish-Norwegian Consul in Cape Town. These were identified as Sylvia palpebrosa but later corrected by Sundevall to Zosterops capensis. The two specimens figured by Levaillant (1802, plate 132) should also be part of the original type series. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 35) refers to NRM 568711 [4578] as a “type”; we treat this as a lectotype designation of this study skin of an adult male collected 13 March 1839 in Rondebosch. The five paralectotypes are: NRM 568712 [4579], a study skin of an adult female collected 21 March 1839 in Rondebosch; NRM 90140118 [4210], a male collected before 1837 in the Cape area (only “Cap” given) by J. Letterstedt; an unsexed specimen [4209] also collected before 1837 in the Cape area by Letterstedt and sent on exchange to Berlin in 1853 (but not found in the ZMB database); and finally the two specimens figured by Levaillant (1802, plate 132). Specimens collected by Levaillant in South Africa are scattered in several museum collections (Rookmaaker 1989). We have not attempted to trace Levaillant’s Zosterops specimens.
VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape Province.
COMMENTS: The entry in the journal for this day confirms date and place.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- VERIFIED
- Family
- Zosteropidae
- Genus
- Zosterops
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Sundevall
- Species
- capensis
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zosterops capensis subsp. capensis Sundevall, 1850 sec. Dean, Åhlander & Johansson, 2022
References
- Sundevall, C. J. (1850) Foglar fran sodra Afrika. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-akademiens forhandlingar, 7 (4), 96 - 111.
- Dickinson, E. C. & Christidis, L. (2014) The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4 th Edition. Vol. 2. Passerines. Aves Press, Eastbourne, 752 pp.
- Gyldenstolpe, N. (1926) Types of birds in the Royal Natural History Museum in Stockholm. Arkiv f or Zoologi, 19, 1 - 116.
- Rookmaaker, L. C. (1989) The Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa, 1650 - 1790. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 368 pp.