Myzomela eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 68

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475807
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E2-FFFF-FF89-FD5B-FF543A21FC25
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scientific name	Myzomela eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert
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Myzomela eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert View in CoL

Myzomela eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert, 1901b: 181 (Kulambangra) View in CoL .

Now Myzomela eichhorni eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert, 1901 View in CoL . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 398, and Higgins et al., 2008: 651–652.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 692976 View Materials , adult male, collected on Kolombangara (5 Kulambangra) Island, 08.00S, 157.10E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 26 February 1901, by one of the Eichhorn brothers for Albert S. Meek (no. 2799). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description but five adult males and one female were collected. Rothschild and Hartert (1903a: 220) listed Meek no. 2799 as the type of eichhorni , thereby designating it the lectotype. Paralectotypes are: males, AMNH 692977 View Materials (Meek no. 2801), AMNH 692978 View Materials (2773), AMNH 692979 View Materials (2786), AMNH 692980 View Materials (2772) ; female, AMNH 692981 View Materials (2787) .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Meliphagidae
Genus	Myzomela