Conurus gundlachi Cabanis

Frahnert, Sylke, Roman, Rafaela Aguilera, Eckhoff, Pascal & Wiley, James W., 2015, Juan Cristobal Gundlach's collections of Puerto Rican birds with special regard to types, Zoosystematics and Evolution 91 (2), pp. 177-189 : 186

Taxon classification Animalia Psittaciformes Psittacidae

Conurus gundlachi Cabanis

Conurus gundlachi Cabanis 1881a: 5.

Now.

Psittacara chloropterus maugei ( Souancé 1856: 59, Cory 1889: 180, Salvadori 1891: 189, Ridgway 1916: 155, Peters 1937: 188, Wiley et al. 2014: 257, Olson 2015).

Type series.

Cabanis mentioned in his description as well as in Cabanis (1881b) that he described the species based on two left wings, which means his description is based on two specimens.

Syntype (lost).

ZMB 2000.35468, wing, [collected by Dr. Claudio Federico Block on Isla de Mona, Portorico [Puerto Rico] before 1874].

Syntype (lost).

ZMB 2000/35469, wing, [collected by Dr. Claudio Federico Block on Isla de Mona, Portorico [Puerto Rico] before 1874].

Type locality.

Insel Mona near Portorico [today Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico].

Remarks.

Three wings of a parakeet from Isla de Mona were collected by Dr. Claudio Federico Block (or Bloch), a Danish physician and hunter from Mayagüez, who gave the wings to Gundlach probably in 1875. Two of the wings arrived in Berlin in October 1876 (B 14144). But they did not get inventory numbers and the whereabouts of the wings are unclear, so they are apparently lost. The whereabouts of the third wing is unknown, too ( Olson 2015).