Parus major blanfordi Pražák

Mlíkovský, Jiří, 2011, Nomenclatural and taxonomic status of bird taxa (Aves) described by an ornithological swindler, Josef Prokop Pražák (1870 – 1904), Zootaxa 3005, pp. 45-68 : 58

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.202788

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6184167

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scientific name

Parus major blanfordi Pražák
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Parus major blanfordi Pražák View in CoL

Parus major blanfordi Pražák, 1894f: 240 View in CoL .

NOW. Parus major blanfordi Pražák, 1894 View in CoL . See Hartert (1905: 344), Vaurie (1950: 21, 1959: 512) and Dickinson (2003: 524).

Holotype. NHMW 33625 (formerly NHMW 1888. VI.16, not IV as given by Pražák 1894f: 240), 3, collected by Enrico Andreini (1828–1894), an Italian army officer, who worked in Iran in 1857–1894 ( Piemontese 1969, Cronin 2008), on an unknown date [= 1857–1888, possibly in the mid 1880s] at “Teheran [= Tehran, Iran; 35.67°N, 51.42°E].

Remarks. Pražák (1894f: 240) said that he based his P. m. blanfordi on a NHMW specimen (listed above) and on a specimen in his private collection (reportedly a male, catalogued as JPPH 1955). There is no evidence that Pražák possessed any tit from Persia or elsewhere from Asia. I thus believe that the specimen JPPH 1955 may have existed only in Pražák’s mind and I consider the NHMW specimen as the holotype of this species.

NHMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Paridae

Genus

Parus

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Parus major blanfordi Pražák

Mlíkovský, Jiří 2011
2011
Loc

Parus major blanfordi Pražák, 1894f : 240

Prazak 1894: 240
1894
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