Megalurus gramineus wilsoni Mathews

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 18

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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13223828

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scientific name

Megalurus gramineus wilsoni Mathews
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Megalurus gramineus wilsoni Mathews

Megalurus gramineus wilsoni Mathews, 1912a: 344 (Victoria).

Now Megalurus gramineus goulburni Mathews, 1912 View in CoL . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 703–704.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 597918 About AMNH , adult female, collected at Western Port , 38.22S. 145.20E ( USBGN, 1957b), Victoria, Australia, on 10 March 1909, by Thomas H. Tregellas (no. 183). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5099) via the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. A single Tregallas specimen of this species was cataloged on 10 September 1910. AMNH 597919 About AMNH , a female collected at Westernport on the same date, is probably a paratype, although I did not find it in Mathews’ catalog ; it was exchanged by AMNH to the FMNH in the 1960s. AMNH 597917 About AMNH , immature male, collected at Somerville, Victoria, on 10 April 1909 by L.G. Chandler was cataloged by Mathews as number 4955 and is a paratype of M. g. wilsoni. Its Mathews collection label is marked ‘‘Type’’ and it bears a blank Rothschild type label upon which has been pencilled ‘‘Unpublished’’ and ‘‘ Not a type’’ in a hand unknown. It is initialed, but I am unsure of the letters. I, too, have found no indication that it was ever designated as a type .

In addition to the Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the holotype bears a yellow ‘‘Figured’’ label. It was illustrated in Mathews (1922a: pl. 444, opp. p. 375, text pp. 376– 377), where it is confirmed as the type of wilsoni.

Mathews (1913a: 211) specified the type locality of wilsoni as Western Port, the collecting locality of the holotype. Watson et al. (1986a: 43) included wilsoni a s a synonym of M. gramineus gramineus , but Schodde and Mason (1999: 703) have included Victoria within the range of M. gramineus goulburni .

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Locustellidae

Genus

Megalurus

Loc

Megalurus gramineus wilsoni Mathews

LeCroy, M. 2008
2008
Loc

Megalurus gramineus goulburni

Schodde, R. & I. J. Mason 1999: 703
1999
Loc

Megalurus gramineus wilsoni

Mathews, G. M. 1912: 344
1912
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