Melithreptus laetior parus Salomonsen

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publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475969
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scientific name	Melithreptus laetior parus Salomonsen
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Melithreptus laetior parus Salomonsen, 1966a: 8 (Exmouth Gulf, mid-Western Australia).

Now Melithreptus gularis laetior Gould, 1875 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 398, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 276–277, Christidis and Boles, 2008 185– 191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 672–673.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691546 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Exmouth Gulf , 22.20S, 114.09E (Times Atlas), Western Australia, Australia, on 21 June 1902, by Thomas Carter. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that parus was known only from the type locality. A second specimen from Exmouth Gulf, AMNH 691545, male, collected on the same day by Carter, is a paratype.

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.

Salomonsen, F. 1966 a. Preliminary descriptions of new honey-eaters (Aves, Meliphagidae). Breviora 254: 1 - 12.

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.