Megalurus timoriensis alpinus Mayr and Rand

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 : 15

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12776789

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Megalurus timoriensis alpinus Mayr and Rand
status

 

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 About AMNH , 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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Locustellidae

Genus

Megalurus

Loc

Megalurus timoriensis alpinus Mayr and Rand

LeCroy, M. 2008
2008
Loc

Megalurus macrurus alpinus

Schodde, R. & I. J. Mason 1999: 702
1999
Loc

Megalurus timoriensis alpinus

Mayr, E. & A. L. Rand 1935: 8
1935
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