Temenuchus pagodarum afghanorum Koelz

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 38

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4630095
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0398542A-1919-FFF5-68D7-91D21BA9FA3E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Temenuchus pagodarum afghanorum Koelz
status

Treatment

Temenuchus pagodarum afghanorum Koelz, 1939: 73 (Tagau, Afghanistan).

Now Sturnus pagodarum (Gmelin, 1789) View in CoL . See Amadon, 1962a: 106; Feare and Craig, 1999: 175–177; Dickinson, 2003: 655; Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005: 582; Lovette and Rubenstein, 2007: 1031–1056; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 732.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 466605 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Tagan (= Tagau), Afghanistan, on 8 June 1937, by Walter Koelz.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Koelz designated as type of afghanorum a specimen with the above data and listed his paratypes as four specimens from Mamakhel, 20–24 May 1937 and three from Chandan on 7 June 1937. Of the seven paratypes, the following six came to AMNH: Māmā Kheyl (= Mamakhel), AMNH 466599 About AMNH , 466603 About AMNH , 466604 About AMNH , two males, one female, 23–24 May 1937 ; Chandan, AMNH 466600–466602 About AMNH , two males, one female, 7 June 1937. The type locality of afghanorum was spelled Tagau on Koelz’s label and Tagan by Vaurie (1959: 125) .

This species has been included in three different genera by recent authors: Sturnus, Amadon (1962a: 106) , Dickinson (2003: 655), Lovette and Rubenstein (2007: 1031–1056); Temenuchus, Feare and Craig (1999: 175– 177) , Rasmussen and Anderton (2005: 582); and Sturnia, Craig and Feare (2009: 732) .