Megalurus timoriensis alpinus Mayr and Rand
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Megalurus timoriensis alpinus Mayr and Rand
Megalurus timoriensis alpinus Mayr and Rand, 1935: 8 (Mt. Albert Edward, southwest slope, Altitude 3680 meters, Territory of Papua).
Now Megalurus macrurus alpinus Mayr and Rand, 1935 View in CoL . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 702.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 420136 View Materials , adult male, collected on the southwest slope of Mount Albert Edward , 3680 m, 08.35S, 147.20E (Times Atlas), Wharton Range, Papua New Guinea, on 2 July 1933, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand. From the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 745). GoogleMaps
COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. A total of six males and eight females was collected on Mt. Albert Edward and at Murray Pass. The 13 paratypes are: AMNH 420131–420135 and 420142–420149. AMNH 420146 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s.
The collecting localities of the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition are described by Archbold and Rand (1935: 565–572), and the entire bird collection is reported on by Mayr and Rand (1937).
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Megalurus timoriensis alpinus Mayr and Rand
LeCroy, M. 2008 |
Megalurus macrurus alpinus
Schodde, R. & I. J. Mason 1999: 702 |
Megalurus timoriensis alpinus
Mayr, E. & A. L. Rand 1935: 8 |