Leptotila verreauxi (Bonaparte, 1855)

Córdoba-Córdoba, Sergio, Sierra, Socorro & Borja-Acosta, Kevin Giancarlo, 2018, Illustrated and online catalog of the type specimens of birds (Class: Aves) in the Ornithological Collection at the Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH-A), Colombia, Zootaxa 4524 (2), pp. 213-226 : 214-215

Species: Leptotila verreauxi

Subspecies:

Leptotila verreauxi hernandezi Romero-Zambrano & Morales-Sánchez, 1981:292

Caldasia 13(62):291–299, September 1981.

Paratypes. IAvH-A (INDERENA)-1577 ( Fig. 1 ) and IAvH-A(INDERENA)-1579 ( Fig. 2 ).

IAvH-A-1577. Female. Colombia, Amazonas, cabeceras río Igará-Paraná (headwaters of Igará-Paraná River); J. Morales, C. Chaparro. Original collector number JEMS-A-458 (field No.12). 28 August 1977.

Remarks: In the physical catalog and original label the specimen has additional geographical, collector and morphological information. The complete locality is: Colombia, Amazonas, Puerto Príncipe, cabecera del rio Igará-Paraná (headwaters of the Igará-Paraná River), and original collectors include J.E. Morales-S., C. E. Chaparro-R. and A. Samper (Jorge Enrique Morales-Sánchez; Carlos Eduardo Chaparro-Rodríguez; Alejandro Samper-Nieto). The specimen was taken as part of the project “Proyecto Amazonia Radargramétrico: PRORADAM”. Weight: 120 g; total length: 270 mm; wingspan: 410 mm; iris: yellow-orange, mandible: black, maxilla: black, feet-tarsus: purple, intestinal length: 340 mm. Active at 12 am. Images URL: http:// colecciones.humboldt.org.co/rec/imagenes/IAvH-A/IAvH-A-1577/IAvH-A-1579. Female. Colombia, Amazonas, cabeceras río Igará- Paraná (headwaters of the Igará-Paraná river), en el noroccidente del Departamento; J. Morales, C. Chaparro. Original collector number JEMS-A-460 (field No.14). 28 August 1 977.

Remarks: In the physical catalog and original label the specimen has additional geographical, collector and morphological information. The collection date differs, the correct date being 29 August 1977. The complete locality is: Colombia, Amazonas, Puerto Príncipe, cabecera del rio Igará-Paraná, and original collectors include J.E. Morales-S., C. E. Chaparro-R.A. and N. Samper (Jorge Enrique Morales-Sánchez; Carlos Eduardo Chaparro- Rodríguez; Alejandro Samper-Nieto). The specimen was taken as part of the project “Proyecto Amazonia Radargramétrico: PRORADAM”. Weight: 130 g; total length: 261 mm; wingspan: 420 mm; iris: orange, mandible: black, maxilla: black, feet-tarsus: purple, intestinal length: 550 mm. Active at 9 am. Images URL: http:// colecciones.humboldt.org.co/rec/imagenes/IAvH-A/IAvH-A-1579/

Remarks for both paratypes: Locality data does not include geographical coordinates. The locality Puerto Principe could not be found in gazetteers, but the same place is recorded for other biological specimens as Puerto Principe, house of Lorenzo Candre. The family Candre still lives in the river Igará-Paraná, north of the original house of Lorenzo Candre. The geographical coordinates of the new house are 1°38'28"S., 72°38'56"W., 150 m a.s.l., near the river mouth of “caño Jitusuñuy”. These coordinates correspond today to Departamento de Amazonas, Corregimiento Departamental de El Encanto, since it is south of the river course of the Igará-Paraná, south of the torrent “raudal” of La Chorrera, Cordillera section. The holotype is a female, ICN 22610 (Instituto de Ciencias Naturales of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, hereafter ICN), collected by Romero-Zambrano and Pablo Bernal (original number PB-5541), 14 March 1975. Type locality: Colombia, Amazonas, Puerto Nariño, margen izquierdo del Río Loreto-Yacu (left margin of the river Loreto-Yacu) cerca de su desembocadura en el Río Amazonas (near the river mouth of the Amazon river) (3°45'S, 70°20'W). Two other paratypes, ICN 22611 (male) and ICN 22612 (female) from the same type locality form part of the description ( Stiles 2007).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Paratype of Leptotila verreauxi hernandezi, IAvH-A-1577, ventral, dorsal, and lateral view (scale bar = 1 cm). Photograph SCC & KGB.

FIGURE 2. Paratype of Leptotila verreauxi hernandezi, IAvH-A-1579, ventral, dorsal, and lateral view (scale bar = 1 cm). Photograph SCC & KGB.