Ammodramus maritimus peninsulae Allen

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 17

Ammodramus maritimus peninsulae Allen

Ammodramus maritimus peninsulae Allen, 1888: 284 (Southwestern Florida (Tarpon Springs and Cedar Keys), [and Louisiana (Grand Isle)]).

Now Ammodramus maritimus peninsulae Allen, 1888 . See Hellmayr, 1938: 509, Zink and Avise,

1990, Post and Greenlaw, 1995, Byers et al., 1995: 254–256, and Dickinson, 2003: 784.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 31209 and AMNH 31210, both females, collected at Tarpon Springs, 28.08N, 82.45W (Times Atlas), Florida, on 28 February 1888, by W.E.D. Scott.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Allen designated as syntypes of A. m. peninsulae the above two specimens and an additional specimen, a male, collected on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in June 1886, by A.K. Fisher (no. 2600). This additional syntype is also part of the type series of Ammodramus maritimus fisheri Chapman (1899: 10) . Part of Fisher’s collection was deposited in USNM, and in reply to a query, James Dean has responded that USNM received only two of Fisher’s specimens of Ammodramus maritimus , the holotype of Ammodramus maritimus fisheri and one other, neither of them Fisher’s male no. 2600. It is also not at LSUMNS (Steven Cardiff, personal commun.); thus its whereabouts are unknown.

Because syntypes of peninsulae were designated, additional specimens have no nomenclatural standing (ICZN, 1999: 77, Art. 72.4.6).