Zosterops lateralis tasmanica 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 : 29

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475687
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scientific name	Zosterops lateralis tasmanica Mathews
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Zosterops lateralis tasmanica Mathews, 1912a: 385 (Tasmania) .

Now Zosterops lateralis lateralis (Latham, 1801) View in CoL . See Mees, 1969: 30–70, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 687–691, and van Balen, 2008: 467–468.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 701090 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Devonport , 41.10S, 146.21E ( USBGN, 1957), Tasmania, Australia, on 12 February 1909, by T[homas] C[arter]. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2840) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the range of tasmanica as ‘‘ Tasmania.’’ AMNH 701090 bears, in addition to the field label, a Mathews type label with his catalog number, and a Rothschild type label; a description of it was included in Mathews (1923a: 138), where it was confirmed as the type of tasmanica. It was also listed by Mees (1969: 60) as the type of tasmanica. Four additional Mathews Collection specimens from Tasmania came to AMNH, but label data are minimal and I was unable to determine when Mathews received them. I do not consider them paratypes. Another specimen was collected on Mount Arthur, Tasmania, on 3 December 1912, after the publication of tasmanica.

The collecting locality of the holotype was miscopied onto the Rothschild label as ‘‘Davenport.’’ For use of 180l as the date of Latham’s Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici see Schodde et al. (2010).

References

Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.

Mathews, G. M. 1923 a. The birds of Australia. Vol. 11, pts. 1 - 3. London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1 - 208, pls. 491 - 508.

Mees, G. F. 1969. A systematic review of the Indo- Australian Zosteropidae (Part III). Zoologische Verhandelingen 102: 3 - 390.

Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.

Schodde, R., E. C. Dickinson, F. D. Steinheimer, and W. J. Bock. 2010. The date of Latham's Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici: 1801 or 1802? South Australian Ornithologist 35: 231 - 235.

van Balen, S. 2008. Family Zosteropidae (whiteeyes). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliot, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 402 - 485. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.