Meliphaga versicolor vulgaris 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 : 84

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0003-0090

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475853

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scientific name

Meliphaga versicolor vulgaris Salomonsen
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Meliphaga versicolor vulgaris Salomonsen

Meliphaga versicolor vulgaris Salomonsen, 1966a: 5 (Finschhafen, Huon Peninsula, northeastern New Guinea).

Now Lichenostomus versicolor vulgaris (Salomonsen, 1966) View in CoL . See Coates, 1990: 278–279, Dickinson, 2003: 432, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 601.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 268962 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Finschhafen , 06.35S, 147.51E (Times Atlas), Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, on 7 February 1929, by Rollo H. Beck (no. 996). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and said that the range was Yapen (5 Japen) Island, coastal northern New Guinea from Geelvink Bay to Huon Gulf , and Fergusson Island . Paratypes are: Seroi, Yapen Island, AMNH 303191–303195 About AMNH , two males, three females, collected by G. Stein in February 1931 ; Hollandia, AMNH 342905 About AMNH , female, collected by R. Archbold, A.L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson in July 1938 ; Madang, AMNH 267979–267982 About AMNH , one immature male, two adult males, one female, collected by Beck in October and December 1928 ; Finschhafen, AMNH 267983–267987 About AMNH , five males, collected by Beck in February 1929 ; Fergusson Island , AMNH 330251 About AMNH , male, collected by H. Hamlin on the Whitney South Sea Expedition in January 1929, AMNH 695741 About AMNH , male, collected by A.S. Meek in May 1913 ; Hosken Island , Huon Gulf, AMNH 695740 About AMNH , female, collected by Meek in July 1913 .

Higgins et al. (2008: 601) tentatively synonymized vulgaris with sonoroides.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Meliphagidae

Genus

Meliphaga

Loc

Meliphaga versicolor vulgaris Salomonsen

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Lichenostomus versicolor vulgaris (Salomonsen, 1966)

Christidis, L. & W. E. Boles 2008: 185
Higgins, P. J. & L. Christidis & H. A. Ford 2008: 601
Dickinson, E. C. 2003: 432
Coates, B. J. 1990: 278
1990
Loc

Meliphaga versicolor vulgaris

Salomonsen, F. 1966: 5
1966
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