Zosterops novaeguineae wuroi Mayr and Rand

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 : 19

publication ID

0003-0090

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5477521

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E2-FFA8-FFDE-FF7F-F9EE3A38FC13

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Tatiana

scientific name

Zosterops novaeguineae wuroi Mayr and Rand
status

 

Zosterops novaeguineae wuroi Mayr and Rand View in CoL

Zosterops novaeguineae wuroi Mayr and Rand, 1935: 16 View in CoL (Wuroi, Oriomo River, Western Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Zosterops novaeguineae wuroi Mayr and Rand, 1935 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 111–112, Coates, 1990: 330–332, and van Balen, 2008: 461.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 422406 View Materials , adult male, collected at Wuroi , 08.50S, 143.07E ( Deignan, 1964a: 234), Oriomo River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 7 February 1934, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand, on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 2784). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description and three specimens from Wuroi comprised the type series. The two paratypes are: AMNH 422405 (Archbold no. 2575), immature male and AMNH 422407 (2574), immature female, both collected at Wuroi on 25 January 1934.

A summary and itinerary of this expedition by Archbold and Rand (1935: 576) identified Wuroi as the landing place on the Oriomo River for the oil-drilling company that had been working at Dogwa. Mayr and Rand (1937) published on the birds collected in 1933–1934.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Zosteropidae

Genus

Zosterops

Loc

Zosterops novaeguineae wuroi Mayr and Rand

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Zosterops novaeguineae wuroi

van Balen, S. 2008: 461
Coates, B. J. 1990: 330
Mees, G. F. 1961: 111
1961
Loc

Zosterops novaeguineae wuroi

Mayr, E. & A. L. Rand 1935: 16
1935
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