Petrophassa rufipennis Collett, 1898

Johannessen, Lars Erik & Lifjeld, Jan T., 2022, Type specimens of birds in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, Zootaxa 5150 (4), pp. 451-486 : 457

Petrophassa rufipennis Collett, 1898

Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1898 (3): 354.

Current name: Petrophassa rufipennis Collett, 1898

Syntype NHMO-BI-77947; Mounted; Ad. M; Knut Dahl (1245), 19 June 1895; Australia: South Alligator River; 13.515° S 132.505° E; 8a.

Remarks: Collett (1898) based the original description on two adult males collected by Knut Dahl, without specifying any one of them as the holotype. One of the specimens was sent to the British Museum (Natural History) (BMNH; Sharpe 1906; Warren 1966), where it currently is catalogued as NHMUK 1898.10.10.1 ( Natural History Museum 2014a; Hein van Grouw, pers. comm.).

The original label, written by the collector, is present at the base of the stand ( Figure 2a ). The species is here referred to simply as ‘ Columba ’.

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FIGURE 2. Labels of type specimens in the NHMO Bird Collection described by R. Collett. a) Petrophassa rufipennis NHMO- BI-77947 (collector’s label); b) Ptilopus (Leucotreron) alligator NHMO-BI-77948 (collector’s label); c) Psephotus dissimilis NHMO-BI-64125 (collector’s label); d) Psephotus dissimilis NHMO-BI-64125 (NHMO label); e) Psephotus dissimilis NHMO- BI-85843 (collector’s label).