Meliphaga mimikae subsp. rara Salomonsen 1966
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Meliphaga

description: <i>Meliphaga mimikae rara</i> Salomonsen <i>Meliphaga mimikae rara</i> Salomonsen, 1966a: 4 (Bernhard Camp, Idenburg River, 50 meters altitude, northwestern New Guinea). Now <i>Meliphaga analoga flavida</i> Stresemann and Paludan, 1932. See Diamond, 1972: 370–371, and Higgins et al., 2008: 592. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 342965</b>, adult male, collected at Bernhard Camp, 50 m., ca. 03.30S, 139.15E (Archbold et al., 1942: map 1), Taritatu (<i>5</i> Idenburg) River, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 26 April 1939, by Richard Archbold, W.B. Richardson, and A.L. Rand on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition (no. 11002). COMMENTS: Salomonsen (1966a: 4) named this form, based on a single specimen, as a subspecies of <i>M. mimikae</i>. Rand (1942b: 508) had merely called attention to the fact that this individual differed from an otherwise uniform series of specimens of <i>M. analoga flavida</i> but included it in <i>flavida</i>. Diamond (1972: 370–371) discussed this type, providing a cogent argument based on size, altitude, and distribution of the two species against using this ‘‘single specimen as evidence for a new race and large range extension of <i>M. mimikae.</i> ’’ Higgins et al. (2008: 592) considered <i>rara</i> of ‘‘doubtful validity.’’
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 71
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