Zosterops splendida 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 : 23-24

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Zosterops splendida Hartert
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Zosterops splendida Hartert

Zosterops splendida Hartert, 1929: 12 (Island of Ganonga, Solomon Islands).

Now Zosterops splendidus Hartert, 1929 View in CoL . See Mees, 1961a: 146–147, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396–397, Dickinson, 2003: 628, and van Balen, 2008: 463.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 220020 View Materials , adult male, collected on Ganongga (5 Ganonga) Island, Solomon Islands, on 24 October 1927, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 28852).

COMMENTS: Hartert gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that he had examined four males and one female. Only part of the specimens collected on Ganongga was sent to Hartert for study and only those specimens comprise his type series. They are identifiable because someone in hand unknown has written on them in black ink ‘‘splendidus [sic] Hart.’’ The paratypes are: AMNH 220014 View Materials , male, 19 October 1927 ; AMNH 220023 View Materials , male, 25 October 1927 ; AMNH 220024 View Materials , male, 25 October 1927 ; AMNH 220025 View Materials , female, 22 October 1927 .

On 24 October 1927, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored at the Ganongga village of Kumbokota, now called Pienuna, 08.02S, 156.36E (USBGN, 1974b), and expedition personnel collected from there to Mount Kela, 08.03S, 156.34E (USBGN, 1974b), according to Hamlin’s Journal S, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition in the Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH.

As noted above, splendidus is variously regarded as a full species or a subspecies of Zosterops luteirostris .

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Zosteropidae

Genus

Zosterops

Loc

Zosterops splendida Hartert

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Zosterops splendidus

van Balen, S. 2008: 463
Dickinson, E. C. 2003: 628
Mayr, E. & J. M. Diamond 2001: 396
Mees, G. F. 1961: 146
1961
Loc

Zosterops splendida

Hartert, E. 1929: 12
1929
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