Corvus marianae mellori Mathews

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 131

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/885.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4630444

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scientific name

Corvus marianae mellori Mathews
status

 

Corvus marianae mellori Mathews View in CoL View at ENA

Corvus marianae mellori Mathews, 1912a: 443 View in CoL (South Australia).

Now Corvus mellori Mathews, 1912 View in CoL . See Mathews, 1926: 390–402; Hartert, 1929a: 53; Mathews, 1930: 894–895; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 276– 277; Rowley, 1967; 1970: 50–53; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 611; and dos Anjos, 2009: 634.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 674602 View Materials , male, collected on Angas Plains , 35.21S, 139.00E ( USBGN, 1957), South Australia, Australia, on 31 December 1901, by Edwin Ashby (no. 290). From the Mathews Collection (3724, not 5724) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that his type was from South Australia, gave inclusive wing measurements, 326–330 mm, without stating the sex, and noted that the feather bases were gray. He also gave his catalog number of the holotype as 5724, but this was a typographical error, the correct number being 3724. (The entry at no. 5724 is a specimen of Neochmia phaeton .) Hartert (1929a: 53) did not catch this error in Mathews’ catalog number.

Rowley (1967) elevated this form to full species status and gave measurements of the holotype: wing 326 mm, bill 54 mm, tarsus 62 mm. Schodde and Mason (1999: 611) and dos Anjos (2009: 634) accepted species status for C. mellori .

Corvus marianae halmaturinus is a synonym of mellori View in CoL (see below) and was described on the same page. Rowley (1970: 50) served as first revisor when he chose mellori View in CoL to have priority over halmaturinus.

[A second specimen of mellori, AMNH View in CoL 674489, cataloged by Mathews as no. 3723, ‘‘ Corvus coronoides View in CoL ,’’ also a male, was collected on 30 December 1901 on Angas Plains. This specimen was identified in the AMNH catalog as Corvus bennetti View in CoL but is a raven with gray feather bases. It was collected by Edwin Ashby and identified as Corvus coronoides View in CoL by him. I measure the wing as 318 mm, bill 50 mm, tarsus, 57 mm, which fall within the measurements given by Rowley (1970: 51) for males of mellori View in CoL from inland New South Wales and South Australia. This topotype is retained with the types.]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Corvidae

Genus

Corvus

Loc

Corvus marianae mellori Mathews

Lecroy, Mary 2014
2014
Loc

Corvus marianae halmaturinus

Rowley, I. 1970: 50
1970
Loc

Corvus mellori

dos Anjos, L. 2009: 634
Schodde, R. & I. J. Mason 1999: 611
Rowley, I. 1970: 50
Blake, E. R. & C. Vaurie 1962: 276
Mathews, G. M. 1930: 894
Hartert, E. 1929: 53
Mathews, G. M. 1926: 390
1926
Loc

Corvus marianae mellori

Mathews, G. M. 1912: 443
1912
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