Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild, 1911

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 11-12

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0003-0090

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scientific name

Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild
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Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild View in CoL

Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild, 1911: 20 (Mount Goliath) .

Now Colluricincla tenebrosa tenebrosa (Rothschild, 1911) View in CoL . See Coates, 1990: 220, Dickinson, 2003: 489, Boles, 2007: 432, and Dumbacher et al., 2008.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 659480 View Materials , adult male, collected on Mt. Goliath , 04.40S, 139.52E ( USBGN, 1982), Oranje Mountains, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 15 February 1911, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5394). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rothschild cited Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and noted that he had nine specimens. Paratypes are: AMNH 659477–659479 View Materials , 659481 View Materials , and 659482, males ; and AMNH 659483– 659485 View Materials , females, all collected on Mt. Goliath

in January and February 1911 by Meek, whose collection was reported on by Rothschild and Hartert (1913).

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 461) and Dickinson (2003: 489, citing Diamond, 1972), have put both Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild, 1911 , and Rhectes tenebrosus Hartlaub and Finsch, 1868 (listed as Pitohui tenebrosus by Mayr, 1967: 51), from Palau in the genus Colluricincla . When this is done, Rothschild’s name being the junior name, the next available name becomes Melanorhectes umbrinus Reichenow, 1915; and Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild is listed by Dickinson as Colluricincla umbrina (Reichenow, 1915) . This is followed by Boles (2007: 432). However, Diamond (1972: 274–275, 284) did not suggest putting Pachycephala tenebrosa in Colluricincla , only that Pitohui tenebrosus be shifted to Colluricincla .

Recent DNA analysis by Dumbacher et al. (2008) has shown quite clearly that Pitohui tenebrosus is closely related to Pachycephala pectoralis and should be included in Pachycephala , the name, confusingly, becoming Pachycephala tenebrosa (Hartlaub and Finsch) .

The suggestion that Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild, 1911 , be put in Colluricincla apparently dates from Sibley and Ahlquist (1982), where such a suggestion was made by Richard Schodde. Dumbacher et al. (2008) did not include Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild in their DNA analysis, but ongoing molecular phylogenetic investigation within Colluricincla confirms the placement in that genus of Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild through the inclusion of DNA samples from the Schrader Range and from Mt. Stolle (B. Benz, personal commun., 2010).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Pachycephalidae

Genus

Pachycephala

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Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary 2010
2010
Loc

Colluricincla tenebrosa tenebrosa (Rothschild, 1911)

Boles, W. E. 2007: 432
Dickinson, E. C. 2003: 489
Coates, B. J. 1990: 220
1990
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