Zosterops samoensis Murphy and Mathews
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Zosterops samoensis Murphy and Mathews View in CoL
Zosterops samoensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929: 11 View in CoL (Savaii Island, Samoa).
Now Zosterops samoensis Murphy and Mathews, 1929 View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 141–142, Watling, 2001: 165–166, and van Balen, 2008: 465.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 206312 View Materials , adult female, collected on Savai’i Island , Western Samoa, on 23 May 1924, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 12729).
COMMENTS: Murphy and Mathews gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that they examined 24 specimens collected on Savai’i on 19 and 23 May 1924. The paratypes are: AMNH 206301–206311 View Materials , 206313–206321 View Materials , 206423 View Materials , 222154 View Materials , 222155 View Materials . Of these, AMNH 206317 View Materials was exchanged to ZMB ; AMNH 206319 View Materials was exchanged to NRM ; and AMNH 206320 View Materials and 222154 were exchanged to ANSP. Four specimens were exchanged to Rothschild and renumbered when they returned to AMNH: AMNH 206303 View Materials (700785) ; AMNH 206309 View Materials (700787) ; AMNH 206313 View Materials (700786) ; and AMNH 206321 View Materials (700788) .
According to Beck’s journal volume F, unpublished journals of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, Archives, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, the expedition vessel, France, was anchored at Salailua Bay, 13.39S, 172.33W (Times Atlas), on 23 May 1924.
For a study of genetic and phenotypic divergence within and among populations of Zosterops flavifrons in Vanuatu, see Phillimore et al. (2008).
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Zosterops samoensis Murphy and Mathews
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Zosterops samoensis
van Balen, S. 2008: 465 |
Watling, D. 2001: 165 |
Mees, G. F. 1969: 141 |
Zosterops samoensis
Murphy, R. C. & G. M. Mathews 1929: 11 |