Melilestes fergussonis Hartert

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 : 47

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Melilestes fergussonis Hartert
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Melilestes fergussonis Hartert

Melilestes fergussonis Hartert (in Rothschild and Hartert), 1896b: 237 (Fergusson Island).

Now Oedistoma iliolophus fergussonis (Hartert, 1896) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 343, Coates, 1990: 313–315, Dickinson, 2003: 451, and Gregory, 2008: 337.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 693665 View Materials , adult male, collected on Fergusson Island , D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, in October 1894, by Albert S. Meek (no. 15). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, and the number of specimens was not specified. Rothschild and Hartert (1903b: 438) listed as the type Meek’s specimen number 15, thereby designating it the lectotype. There are four paralectotypes in AMNH: AMNH 693664, 693666–693668, two males and two females collected by Meek on Fergusson Island in 1894. His base was near Nade (5 Nadi, as spelled by Meek), ca. 09.40S, 150.42E, on the southwest coast of Fergusson ( Meek, 1913: 45).

Dickinson (2003: 451) used the adjectival neuter fergussone. Gregory (2008: 337), however, noted that the subspecific name fergussonis is not ‘‘demonstrably adjectival and should be treated as a noun in genitive case, therefore invariable.’’

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Melilestes

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Melilestes fergussonis Hartert

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Oedistoma iliolophus fergussonis (Hartert, 1896)

Gregory, P. A. 2008: 337
Dickinson, E. C. 2003: 451
Coates, B. J. 1990: 313
Salomonsen, F. 1967: 343
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