Phonygammus aruensis Cracraft

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 93-94

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4630287
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0398542A-1962-FF8D-6976-96001EACFA44
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Phonygammus aruensis Cracraft
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Treatment

Phonygammus aruensis Cracraft, 1992: 10 (Sq. Wanoem Bay, Kobror Island, Aru Islands, West Irian).

Now Phonygammus keraudrenii aruensis Cracraft, 1992 View in CoL . See Diamond, 1972: 326–327; Nunn and Cracraft, 1996; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 229– 240; Dickinson, 2003: 516; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 464.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 677414 View Materials , adult male, collected on Sungai (= Sg. as on label), Wanoembai , 06.02S, 134.18E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 571), Kobror Island , Aru Islands , Papua Province (= West Irian ), Indonesia, on 2 September 1900, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 2499). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Cracraft listed the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had four additional specimens in his type series, all collected by Kühn. The paratypes are: Trangan Island , Aru Islands, AMNH 677411 View Materials (Kühn’s no. illegible), male, 14 September 1900 ; Sungai Wanoembai, Kobror Island , Aru Islands, AMNH 677412 View Materials (2500), AMNH 677413 View Materials (2498), AMNH 677415 View Materials (2497) three males, 3–4 September 1900 .

The species Phonygammus keraudrenii was included in the genus Manucodia by Diamond (1972: 307–308), and this has been followed by Coates (1990: 437–439), Frith and Beehler (1998: 229) and Frith and Frith (2009b: 464), but the genus Phonygammus has been retained by Cracraft (1992: 10), Nunn and Cracraft (1996), Schodde and Mason (1999: 525–526), and Dickinson (2003: 516). Recognition of Phonygammus is followed here.

Described as a phylogenetic species by Cracraft, aruensis has been included as a subspecies of Phonygammus keraudrenii by Dickinson (2003: 516) and as a subspecies of Manucodia keraudrenii by Frith and Beehler (1998: 232–233) and Frith and Frith (2009b: 464).

Sungai Wanoem Bay is the narrow strait that separates Kobror Island from Wokam Island in the Aru Islands.