Melirrhophetes belfordi subsp. griseirostris Rothschild and Hartert
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Melirrhophetes

description: <i>Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris</i> Rothschild and Hartert <i>Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris</i> Rothschild and Hartert, 1911c: 34 (Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea). Now <i>Melidectes belfordi griseirostris</i> (Rothschild and Hartert, 1911). See Gilliard, 1959, Diamond, 1967: 9–12, Salomonsen, 1967: 418, Dickinson, 2003: 438, and Higgins et al., 2008: 613. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 693819</b>, male, collected on Mount Goliath, 04.40S, 139.52E (USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 11 February 1911, by Albert S. Meek (no. 5353). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Meek’s unique field number of the holotype was cited in the original description. Rothschild and Hartert (1913: 514–515) reported on Meek’s Mount Goliath collection and noted that they had six males and four females, giving Meek’s numbers for each. The nine paratypes, all collected in January and February 1911, are: <b>AMNH 693817</b> (Meek no. 5222), <b>AMNH 693818</b> (5148), <b>AMNH 693820</b> (5298), <b>AMNH 693821</b> (5093), <b>AMNH 693822</b> (5354), <b>AMNH 693823</b> (5161), males (as sexed by Meek); <b>AMNH 693824</b> (5455), <b>AMNH 693825</b> (5325), <b>AMNH 693826</b> (5248), females (as sexed by Meek). Dickinson (2003: 438) and Higgins et al. (2008: 613) did not recognize <i>griseirostris</i>, considering it a hybrid form. However, this population is a stable population of hybrid origin, all specimens showing the same characters, not a ‘‘hybrid swarm,’’ a population of individuals showing a mixture of traits possessed by the supposed parental forms (Gilliard, 1959: 24). <b> <i>Melidectes belfordi schraderensis</i> Gilliard and</b> LeCroy <i>Melidectes belfordi schraderensis</i> Gilliard and LeCroy, 1968: 33 (Mt. Kominjim, 8300 feet, Schrader Mountains, Territory of New Guinea). Now <i>Melidectes belfordi schraderensis</i> Gilliard and LeCroy, 1968. See Coates, 1990: 259–262, and Higgins et al., 2008: 613. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 792681</b>, adult male, collected on Mount Kominjim, 8300 ft, Schrader Mountains, 05.00S, 144.10E (PNG, 1984), Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, on 28 April 1964, by E. Thomas Gilliard. COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description; the type series comprised one skin specimen additional to the holotype, <b>AMNH 792848</b>, sex?, and spirit specimens <b>AMNH 3633–3639</b>, all of which are paratypes, although only two were listed in the original description. <i>Melidectes belfordi schraderensis</i> Gilliard and LeCroy, 1968: 33 (Mt. Kominjim, 8300 feet, Schrader Mountains, Territory of New Guinea). Now <i>Melidectes belfordi schraderensis</i> Gilliard and LeCroy, 1968. See Coates, 1990: 259–262, and Higgins et al., 2008: 613. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 792681</b>, adult male, collected on Mount Kominjim, 8300 ft, Schrader Mountains, 05.00S, 144.10E (PNG, 1984), Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, on 28 April 1964, by E. Thomas Gilliard. COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description; the type series comprised one skin specimen additional to the holotype, <b>AMNH 792848</b>, sex?, and spirit specimens <b>AMNH 3633–3639</b>, all of which are paratypes, although only two were listed in the original description.
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 pages 133-134
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