Meliornis novaehollandiae myponga 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 : 143

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0003-0090

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5477545

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Meliornis novaehollandiae myponga Mathews
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Meliornis novaehollandiae myponga Mathews

Meliornis novaehollandiae myponga Mathews, 1925a: 16 (Myponga) .

Now Phylidonyris novaehollandiae novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 427, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 311–312, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 667–668.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692152 View Materials , adult male, collected at Myponga , 35.24S, 138.27E ( USBGN, 1957), South Australia, Australia, on 21 March 1912, by S.A. White (no. 617). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12324) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews (1925a: pl. 544, opp. p. 14, text p. 16) described and figured the adult male collected on 21 March 1912, designating it the type of myponga. It is the only specimen in AMNH collected on that date and it bears in addition to White’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The Mathews type label bears the annotation ‘‘ Figured’ ’ and Mathews’ catalog number ‘‘12324,’’ although that number was not given in the original description. The following four AMNH specimens collected by S.A. White at Myponga in 1912 are paratypes: AMNH 692151 View Materials (Mathews no. 12325, White no. 620), 22 March, AMNH 692153 View Materials (12328, 618), 24 March, males ; AMNH 692154 View Materials (12327, 621), 21 March, AMNH 692155 View Materials (12326, 619), 22 March, females .

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Meliornis

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Meliornis novaehollandiae myponga Mathews

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Phylidonyris novaehollandiae novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790)

Christidis, L. & W. E. Boles 2008: 185
Higgins, P. J. & L. Christidis & H. A. Ford 2008: 667
Schodde, R. & I. J. Mason 1999: 311
Salomonsen, F. 1967: 427
1967
Loc

Meliornis novaehollandiae myponga

Mathews, G. M. 1925: 16
1925
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