Creadion paradoxus brevirostris 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 : 168-169

Creadion paradoxus brevirostris Mathews

Creadion paradoxus brevirostris Mathews, 1925a: 73 , 76, pl. 550 (Launceston, Tasmania).

Now Anthochaera paradoxa paradoxa (Daudin, 1800) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 448, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 303, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 624.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696435 , female, collected at Launceston , 41.25S, 147.07E (Times Atlas), Tasmania, Australia, in June 1905, obtained from Edwin Ashby. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3379) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews (1925a: 76) gave the name brevirostris to the specimen described on p. 73 and figured ( Mathews, 1925a: pl. 550, opp. p. 72). The data given match the label information on AMNH 696435, his only specimen from Launceston. I consider it the holotype. Ashby’s label is still present but has faded almost to illegibility; however, the date 17 June 1905 is still readable. Mathews collection label with his catalog number and a Rothschild Museum label printed ‘‘Ex. Coll. G.M. Mathews’’ are also present. The specimen had not previously been included in the AMNH type collection.