Meliphaga flaviventer tararae Salomonsen

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 : 104

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475925
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E2-FFD3-FFA5-FD50-FF533A07F9C4
treatment provided by	Tatiana
scientific name	Meliphaga flaviventer tararae Salomonsen
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Treatment

Meliphaga flaviventer tararae Salomonsen, 1966a: 6 (Tarara, Wassi Kussa River, 90 miles west of Daru, British Papua (western division), southern New Guinea).

Now Xanthotis flaviventer saturatior (Rothschild and Hartert, 1903) View in CoL . See Rand, 1938: 14, Coates, 1990: 275–277, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 227– 228, and Higgins et al., 2008: 689–690.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 428247 View Materials , adult male, collected at Tarara , ca. 08.50S, 141.50E (see map in Rand and Brass, 1940), Wassi Kussa River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 8 December 1936, by R. Archbold, A.L. Rand, and G.H.H. Tate on the 1936– 1937 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 6321). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and considered the range of tararae to be from the middle and lower Fly River west to about the Digul River . Paratypes in AMNH are: Wuroi, Oriomo River, AMNH 422314–422320 View Materials , six males and one female ; Daru, AMNH 425242 View Materials , male ; Mabaduan, AMNH 425243 View Materials , 425244 View Materials , two males ; Tarara, Wassi Kussa River , AMNH 425245 View Materials , 425246 View Materials , 425248–425258 View Materials , seven males and six females ; Lake Daviumbu , AMNH 428198–428211 View Materials , ten males and four females ; Fly River , east bank opposite Sturt Island, AMNH 428212–428230 View Materials , 14 males and five females ; Gaima, AMNH 428231–428241 View Materials , four males and seven females .

Rand (1938: 14) had included these specimens in saturatior, commenting that specimens from the middle Fly River showed evidence of gene flow between them and specimens from the upper Fly. Schodde and Mason (1999: 228) also included all of the Fly River specimens in saturatior, commenting that the slightly paler coloration of specimens from the lower Fly River may possibly be the result of past gene flow from filigera of Cape York Peninsula. See Rand and Brass (1940) for a summary of the expedition and description of the collecting localities.