Zosterops floridana Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 20

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475643
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scientific name	Zosterops floridana Rothschild and Hartert
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Zosterops floridana Rothschild and Hartert, 1901b: 180 (Florida Island).

Now Zosterops metcalfii floridanus Rothschild and Hartert, 1901 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 156–157, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396, and van Balen, 2008: 461.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 700653 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Nggela Sule (5 Florida) Island, 09.05S, 160.15E ( USBGN, 1974b), Solomon Islands, on 28 December 1900, by Albert Eichhorn for Albert S. Meek (no. 2704). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description nor was the number of specimens examined given, although measurements were published for more than one of each sex. Hartert (1920: 436) listed the type as specimen no. 2704, thus designating it the lectotype. Paralectotypes in AMNH, all collected on Nggela Sula, are: AMNH 700654 About AMNH (Meek no. 2706), male, 28 December 1900 ; AMNH 700655 About AMNH (2719), male, 31 December 1900 ; AMNH 700656 About AMNH (2715), male, 29 December 1900 ; AMNH 700657 About AMNH (2737), male, 22 January 1901 ; AMNH 700660 About AMNH (2705), female, 28 December 1900 .

References

Hartert, E. 1920. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection (cont'd.). Novitates Zoologicae 27: 425 - 505.

Mayr, E., and J. M. Diamond. 2001. The birds of northern Melanesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 492 pp.

Mees, G. F. 1961 a. A systematic review of the Indo-Australian Zosteropidae (Part II). Zoologische Verhandelingen 50: 3 - 168, 4 pls.

Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1901 b. List of a collection of birds from Kulambangra and Florida islands, in the Solomons Group. Novitates Zoologicae 8: 179 - 189.

van Balen, S. 2008. Family Zosteropidae (whiteeyes). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliot, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 402 - 485. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.