Melithreptus alisteri Mathews
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Melithreptus

description: <i>Melithreptus alisteri</i> Mathews <i>Melithreptus alisteri</i> Mathews, 1910a: 85 (King Island, north of Tasmania). Now <i>Melithreptus affinis</i> (Lesson, 1839). See Salomonsen, 1967: 397, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 286, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 675–676. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 691701</b>, male, collected on King Island, 39.50S, 144.00E (USBGN, 1957), Bass Strait Islands, Tasmania, Australia, on 11 November 1902, by A.G. Campbell (no. 785). From the Mathews Collection (no. 3012) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews did not designate a type in the original description, but apparently had a single specimen. The type bears, in addition to an original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a ‘‘Figured’’ label which indicates that it was the model for Mathews (1924: pl. 513, upper fig., opp. p. 283, text p. 284) where the figured specimen was said to be the type of <i>alisteri</i>, thus confirming it as the type. The Rothschild type label is annotated with Mathews’ catalog number, although that was not given in the description, and opposite 3012 in his catalog Mathews has written ‘‘ Type of alisteri.’’ A second specimen of <i>alisteri</i>, AMNH 691702, collected by Campbell on 12 November 1902, was never in the Mathews Collection. Campbell (1903) wrote a report on the birds of King Island but did not say how many specimens he collected. Salomonsen (1967: 397) recognized <i>alisteri</i> as a subspecies of <i>M. affinis</i>; Schodde and Mason (1999: 286) and Higgins et al. (2008: 675) considered <i>M. affinis</i> monotypic.
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 114
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