Melidectes princeps Mayr and Gilliard
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Melidectes princeps Mayr and Gilliard View in CoL
Melidectes princeps Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 13 View in CoL (Mt. Wilhelm, Bismarck Mountains, Central Highlands, Mandated Territory of New Guinea).
Now Melidectes princeps Mayr and Gilliard, 1951 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 416, Coates, 1990: 258– 259, and Higgins et al., 2008: 612.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 348207 View Materials , adult male, collected on Mount Wilhelm , south drainage, 11,800 ft, 05.45S, 145.00E (PNG, 1984), Bismarck Mountains, Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea, on 10 June 1950, by Robert GoogleMaps
Doyle on the 1950 Gilliard Expedition to New Guinea.
COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description and princeps was said to occur above 10,000 ft in the Kubor Mountains , on Mount Hagen and on Mount Wilhelm. The name was published in 1951, so only those specimens collected on the 1950 expedition are paratypes: Mount Orata , Kubor Mountains, May, AMNH 705810 View Materials , 705811 View Materials , 705811 View Materials bis, males, AMNH 705812 View Materials , female ; Mount Wilhelm , June, AMNH 705813 View Materials , 705814 View Materials , males, AMNH 705815 View Materials , male?, AMNH 705816– 705818 View Materials , females ; Mount Hagen , July, AMNH 705819–705821 View Materials , males, AMNH 705822 View Materials , female?, AMNH 705823 View Materials , juvenile, AMNH 705824 View Materials , sex?. Of these, AMNH 705814 View Materials and 705816 were exchanged to FMNH and AMNH 705824 View Materials was sent to AM .
Coates (1990: 256, 258) included this species in the genus Melionyx . See Mayr and Gilliard (1954) for a report on Gilliard’s 1950 and 1952 expeditions.
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Melidectes princeps Mayr and Gilliard
Mary 2011 |
Melidectes princeps
Higgins, P. J. & L. Christidis & H. A. Ford 2008: 612 |
Coates, B. J. 1990: 258 |
Salomonsen, F. 1967: 416 |
Melidectes princeps
Mayr, E. & E. T. Gilliard 1951: 13 |