Melithreptus validirostris kingi Mathews

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 : 116

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Melithreptus validirostris kingi Mathews
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Melithreptus validirostris kingi Mathews

Melithreptus validirostris kingi Mathews, 1915a: 131 (King Island, Bass Strait).

Now Melithreptus validirostris (Gould, 1837) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 398, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 278, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 673.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 691586 View Materials , adult male, collected on King Island , 39.50S, 144.00E ( USBGN, 1957), Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia, on 28 April 1914, by Thomas Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews only said that the type was from King Island, Bass Strait. Mathews had six specimens from King Island, collected by Tregellas in April 1914 ; they do not appear in Mathews’ catalog. AMNH 691586 View Materials bears a Rothschild type label with no name written on it but with a reference to the description of kingi. The Tregellas label is marked ‘‘ M. Kingi Type’ ’ by Mathews. It was cataloged as the type when the Rothschild Collection came to AMNH and has been so considered. In order to validate Mathews’ intent, I hereby designate AMNH 691586 View Materials the lectotype of M. validirostris kingi . The five paralectotypes, all

from King Island, are: AMNH 691585, male, 23 April; AMNH 691587, male, 22 April; AMNH 691588, male, 22 April; AMNH 691589, female, 24 April; AMNH 691590, female, 24 April. The number ‘‘740’’ that appears on all of the Tregellas labels refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). AMNH 691589 also bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 512, lower fig., opp. p. 256, text p. 269), where no type status is indicated.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Melithreptus

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Melithreptus validirostris kingi Mathews

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Melithreptus validirostris (Gould, 1837)

Christidis, L. & W. E. Boles 2008: 185
Higgins, P. J. & L. Christidis & H. A. Ford 2008: 673
Schodde, R. & I. J. Mason 1999: 278
Salomonsen, F. 1967: 398
1967
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Melithreptus validirostris kingi

Mathews, G. M. 1915: 131
1915
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