Toxorhamphus poliopterus subsp. maximus Rand 1941
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Melanocharitidae
Toxorhamphus

description: <i>Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus</i> Rand <i>Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus</i> Rand, 1941: 13 (15 kilometers southwest of Bernhard Camp, Idenburg River, Netherland [sic] New Guinea, altitude 1500 meters). Now <i>Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus</i> Rand, 1941. See Dickinson, 2003: 452, and Gregory, 2008: 338. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 305909</b>, adult male, collected 15 km southwest of Bernhard Camp, 1500 m, ca 03.30S, 139.15E (Archbold et al., 1942, map 1), Taritatu (<i>5</i> Idenburg) River, Papua Province (<i>5</i> Netherlands New Guinea), Indonesia, on 29 January 1939, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition. COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as the north slopes of the Snow Mountains, between 1200 and 1500 m, west to the Weyland Mountains, between 1200 and 1700 m. Paratypes in AMNH are: Mount Kunupi, Weyland Mountains, <b>AMNH 302484</b>, adult female, <b>AMNH 302485</b>, adult female [immature male?], both 9 September 1931; 6–15 km sw Bernhard Camp, <b>AMNH 342600</b>, adult male, 2 February 1939, <b>AMNH 342601</b>, male?, 23 February 1939, <b>AMNH 342602</b>, adult female, 27 February 1939, <b>AMNH 342603</b>, adult female, 4 March 1939. Of these, AMNH 342603 was sent to MZB. For a complete account of the birds collected on this expedition, see Rand (1942b), and for a summary of the expedition, see Archbold et al. (1942). This Third Archbold Expedition was a joint expedition with Netherlands Indies authorities and was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. The genus <i>Toxorhamphus</i> is now included in the Melanocharitidae.
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 45-46
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