Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand, 1940

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 129-130

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scientific name

Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand
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Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand View in CoL

Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand, 1940: 13 View in CoL (Bele River, 18 km. north of Lake Habbema, 2200 meters, Snow Mts., Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand, 1940 View in CoL . See Dickinson, 2003: 438 and Higgins et al., 2008: 657.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305655 View Materials , adult male, collected on the Ibele (5 Bele ) River , 18 km north of Lake Habbema , 2200 m, 04.08S, 138.40E ( USBGN, 1982a), Maoke (5 Snow ) Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia (5 Netherlands New Guinea), on 23 November 1938, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 8254). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. In the later report on all of the birds collected on the 1938–1939 expedition, Rand (1942b: 509) listed seven males and 11 females collected, in addition to the type specimen. Paratypes are: near Lake Habbema, 18 October–6 November 1938, AMNH 342966–342968 View Materials , males, AMNH 342969–342972 View Materials , females ; Ibele River , 12–29 November 1938, AMNH 342973–342976 View Materials , males, AMNH 342977–342983 View Materials , females. Of these, AMNH 342970 View Materials was sent to MZB, and AMNH 342967 View Materials and AMNH 342983 View Materials were exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s .

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

MZB

Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Ptiloprora

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Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis Rand

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Ptiloprora meekiana occidentalis

Higgins, P. J. & L. Christidis & H. A. Ford 2008: 657
Dickinson, E. C. 2003: 438
2003
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