Ptilotis cratitia samueli Mathews

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Ptilotis cratitia samueli Mathews Ptilotis cratitia zarda Mathews

Ptilotis cratitia samueli Mathews, 1912d: 99 (Eyre’s Peninsula, South Australia).

Ptilotis cratitia zarda Mathews, 1913b: 193 , nom. nov.

Now Lichenostomus cratitius occidentalis Cabanis, 1851 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 380, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 245–246, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 605.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695267 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Warunda Creek , 34.26S, 135.38E ( USBGN, 1957), Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia, on 24 August 1911, by S.A. White (no. 29). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9657) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description of samueli, giving the range as ‘‘ South Australia.’’ Mathews (1912d: 99) introduced two new taxa as samueli within the same genus and on the same page. He later realized his error and introduced zarda as a replacement name for Ptilotis cratitia samueli ; the two names share the same type. There are four paratypes in AMNH, all from Eyre Peninsula: AMNH 695264 About AMNH (Mathews no. 9658), male, 8 September 1911 ; AMNH 695265 About AMNH (9481), female, July 1911, AMNH 695266 About AMNH (9659), female, 8 September 1911, all from Arno Bay ; AMNH 695268 About AMNH (9480), male?, June 1911. There are also paratypes in SAMA (B. Blaylock, personal commun.) .

Salomonsen (1967: 380) considered this form a synonym of Meliphaga cratitia cratitia . See Schodde and Mason (1999: 246) concerning the use of occidentalis for mainland populations of Lichenstomus cratitius .

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. 1912 d. Additions and corrections to my reference list to the birds of Australia. Austral Avian Record 1: 81 - 104.

Mathews, G. M. 1913 b. Additions and corrections to my reference list. Austral Avian Record 1: 187 - 194.

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.