Gliciphila melanops westernensis 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 : 147

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Gliciphila melanops westernensis Mathews
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Gliciphila melanops westernensis Mathews

Gliciphila melanops westernensis Mathews, 1912a: 399 (South-West Australia)

Now Gliciphila melanops melanops (Latham, 1801) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 430, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 316–317, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 659.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691935 View Materials , adult male, collected at Wilson Inlet , 35.00S, 117.22E ( USBGN, 1957), Western Australia, Australia, on 13 April 1910, by F. Lawson Whitlock. From the Mathews Collection (no. 4829) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description, giving the range of westernensis as ‘‘ West Australia.’’ The holotype bears in addition to Carter’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. There are 16 paratypes in AMNH: Wilson Inlet, AMNH 691936 View Materials (Mathews no. 4200), female, 5 December 1909, AMNH 691937 View Materials (4828), female, 18 April 1910, AMNH 691938 View Materials (4830), immature female, 18 April 1910 ; Albany , AMNH 691939 View Materials (3079), male, 28 December 1904, AMNH 691940 View Materials (3076), male juvenile, 17 February 1905, AMNH 691942 View Materials (3074), juvenile, 16 February 1905 ; King George Sound , AMNH 691943 View Materials (3084), no data ; Stirling Range , AMNH 691945 View Materials (6184), sex?, 7 September 1910 ; Broome Hill , AMNH 691949 View Materials (3067), female, 25 November 1906, AMNH 691950 View Materials (3068), female, 27 July 1908, AMNH 691951 View Materials (3066), female, 14 January 1907 ; Perth , AMNH 691954 View Materials (3069), female, 29 June 1907 ; Wongan Hills , AMNH 691955 View Materials (5318), female, 4 October 1903, AMNH 691956 View Materials (5317), female juvenile, 3 October 1903, AMNH 691957 View Materials (5316), juvenile, October 1903 ; Subiaco Beach , AMNH 691958 View Materials (3075), male juvenile, 26 December 1908. There are three possible additional paratypes, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: Albany, AMNH 691941 View Materials , female, 19 January 1910 ; Broome Hill , AMNH 691946 View Materials , male, 11 February 1911, AMNH 691948 View Materials , female, 17

October 1910. Other specimens in AMNH were collected after the description was published on 31 January 1912 or were never in Mathews’ collection.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Gliciphila

Loc

Gliciphila melanops westernensis Mathews

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Gliciphila melanops melanops (Latham, 1801)

Christidis, L. & W. E. Boles 2008: 185
Higgins, P. J. & L. Christidis & H. A. Ford 2008: 659
Schodde, R. & I. J. Mason 1999: 316
Salomonsen, F. 1967: 430
1967
Loc

Gliciphila melanops westernensis

Mathews, G. M. 1912: 399
1912
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