Creadion paradoxus brevirostris Mathews

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 168-169

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5476101
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scientific name	Creadion paradoxus brevirostris Mathews
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Creadion paradoxus brevirostris Mathews, 1925a: 73 , 76, pl. 550 (Launceston, Tasmania).

Now Anthochaera paradoxa paradoxa (Daudin, 1800) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 448, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 303, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 624.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696435 About AMNH , female, collected at Launceston , 41.25S, 147.07E (Times Atlas), Tasmania, Australia, in June 1905, obtained from Edwin Ashby. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3379) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews (1925a: 76) gave the name brevirostris to the specimen described on p. 73 and figured ( Mathews, 1925a: pl. 550, opp. p. 72). The data given match the label information on AMNH 696435, his only specimen from Launceston. I consider it the holotype. Ashby’s label is still present but has faded almost to illegibility; however, the date 17 June 1905 is still readable. Mathews collection label with his catalog number and a Rothschild Museum label printed ‘‘Ex. Coll. G.M. Mathews’’ are also present. The specimen had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection.

References

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.

Mathews, G. M. 1925 a. The birds of Australia. Vol. 12, pts. 1 - 5. London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1 - 225, pls. 542 - 570.

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.