Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix 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 : 77

publication ID

0003-0090

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475833

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix Mathews
status

 

Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix Mathews View in CoL

Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix Mathews, 1912a: 403 View in CoL (North Queensland (Cairns)).

Now Meliphaga gracilis imitatrix (Mathews, 1912) View in CoL . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 261–262, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 592.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695868 View Materials , adult male, collected at Cairns , 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in October 1909, by P. Schraeder. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3157) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range of imitatrix as ‘‘ North Queensland.’’ In addition to the Mathews Collection label, the holotype bears Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 528, upper fig., opp. p. 430, text p. 434) where it is confirmed as the type of imitatrix. The following specimens were in the Mathews Collection before imitatrix was published on 31 January 1912 and are paratypes: AMNH 695859 View Materials , female, Johnstone River on 22 June 1900, by E. Olive ; AMNH 695865 View Materials (Mathews’ no. 9537), female, Barron River , 26 July 1910, by the Dodds ; AMNH 695869 View Materials (3158), female, Cairns, July 1908, by P. Schraeder. AMNH 695867 View Materials (10285), sex?, Barron River, 26 July 1910, by the Dodds, was perhaps in Mathews’ hands when the name was published, but it was not cataloged until 13 February 1912. I have considered AMNH 695859 View Materials a paratype, although I did not find it in Mathews’ catalog ; Mathews purchased Olive’s collection from Robinson and cataloged it in 1910. AMNH 695870 View Materials , collected at Cairns in 1888 by T.H. Bowyer Bower was not cataloged by Mathews until 1913. Other specimens of this form now in AMNH, either were never in Mathews’ Collection or were collected after the date of publication of the name .

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Ptilotis

Loc

Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix Mathews

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Meliphaga gracilis imitatrix (Mathews, 1912)

Christidis, L. & W. E. Boles 2008: 185
Higgins, P. J. & L. Christidis & H. A. Ford 2008: 592
Schodde, R. & I. J. Mason 1999: 261
1999
Loc

Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix

Mathews, G. M. 1912: 403
1912
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