Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris Rothschild and Hartert
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Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris Rothschild and Hartert View in CoL
Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris Rothschild and Hartert, 1911c: 34 View in CoL (Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea).
Now Melidectes belfordi griseirostris (Rothschild and Hartert, 1911) View in CoL . See Gilliard, 1959, Diamond, 1967: 9–12, Salomonsen, 1967: 418, Dickinson, 2003: 438, and Higgins et al., 2008: 613.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 693819 View Materials , male, collected on Mount Goliath , 04.40S, 139.52E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 11 February 1911, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5353). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps
COMMENTS: Meek’s unique field number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 514–515) reported on Meek’s Mount Goliath collection and noted that they had six males and four females, giving Meek’s numbers for each. The nine paratypes, all collected in January and February 1911, are: AMNH 693817 View Materials (Meek no. 5222), AMNH 693818 View Materials (5148), AMNH 693820 View Materials (5298), AMNH 693821 View Materials (5093), AMNH 693822 View Materials (5354), AMNH 693823 View Materials (5161), males (as sexed by Meek) ; AMNH 693824 View Materials (5455), AMNH 693825 View Materials (5325), AMNH 693826 View Materials (5248), females (as sexed by Meek) .
Dickinson (2003: 438) and Higgins et al. (2008: 613) did not recognize griseirostris, considering it a hybrid form. However, this population is a stable population of hybrid origin, all specimens showing the same characters, not a ‘‘hybrid swarm,’’ a population of individuals showing a mixture of traits possessed by the supposed parental forms ( Gilliard, 1959: 24).
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Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris Rothschild and Hartert
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Melidectes belfordi griseirostris (Rothschild and Hartert, 1911)
Higgins, P. J. & L. Christidis & H. A. Ford 2008: 613 |
Dickinson, E. C. 2003: 438 |
Diamond, J. M. 1967: 9 |
Salomonsen, F. 1967: 418 |
Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris
Rothschild, W. & E. Hartert 1911: 34 |