Malurus splendens perthi Mathews
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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087C0-9E75-106D-FF7E-4C830FBFFEA3 |
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Felipe |
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Malurus splendens perthi Mathews |
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[ Malurus splendens perthi Mathews ]
Despite the fact that Mathews (1922e: 73) referred to this name as ‘‘ssp. nov.’’, perthi is a nomen novum for Malurus pectoralis Gould, 1833 and shares Gould’s type. Gould had proposed Malurus pectoralis (not Malurus pectoralis Stevens, 1826 ) as a name for his specimens from Swan River, Western Australia, but soon recognized that his birds were the same as Saxicola splendens Quoy and Gaimard, 1830 , a name proposed for birds from King George Sound. He then used Malurus splendens in his Birds of Australia ( Gould, 1848: text opp. pl. 21). Mathews merely provided a replacement name for Gould’s preoccupied, but unused, name.
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