Zosterops vellalavella Hartert 1908
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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Zosteropidae
Zosterops

description: <i>Zosterops vellalavella</i> Hartert <i>Zosterops vellalavella</i> Hartert, 1908: 106 (Vella Lavella I., Central Group of the Solomon Islands). Now <i>Zosterops vellalavella</i> Hartert, 1906. See Mees, 1961a: 143–145, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396, and van Balen, 2008: 463. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 700719</b>, adult male, collected on Vella Lavella Island, 07.45S, 156.35E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 26 February 1908, by Albert S. Meek (no. 3856). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert said that the type in the Rothschild Collection was a male with Meek’s no 3858, collected on 26.ii.08; Meek’s number on the above specimen is 3856. That the number listed in the description was a typographical error is confirmed by Hartert (1920: 436), who cited the number as 3856 without comment. There is no specimen of <i>Z. vellalavella</i> bearing the Meek no. 3858; that number is borne instead by a specimen of <i>Myiagra ferrocyanea feminina</i> (T. Trombone, personal commun.). The holotype bears in addition to Meek’s label and a Rothschild Collection label, a Rothschild type label on which Hartert has written ‘‘no. 3856.’’ It is also cited as the type by Mees (1961a: 144). Hartert (1908: 106) did not say how many specimens he examined, but Rothschild and Hartert (1908: 358) listed four males and two females, with their Meek numbers. The following paratypes, all collected by Meek on Vella Lavella in 1908, came to AMNH: males, <b>AMNH 700718</b> (Meek no. 3861), 26 February; <b>AMNH 700720</b> (3848), 25 February; <b>AMNH 700721</b> (3799), 20 February; female, <b>AMNH 700722</b> (3857), 26 February. A female specimen bearing Meek’s number 3819 is also a paratype, if found.
description: Published as part of <i>Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348)</i> on page 23
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