Guadalcanaria notabilis subsp. superciliaris Mayr
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Guadalcanaria

description: <i>Guadalcanaria notabilis superciliaris</i> Mayr <i>Guadalcanaria notabilis superciliaris</i> Mayr, 1932: 15 (Epi Island, New Hebrides). Now <i>Glycifohia notabilis superciliaris</i> (Mayr, 1932). See Salomonsen, 1967: 431, Bregulla, 1992: 243–244, Dickinson, 2003: 440, and Higgins et al., 2008: 631. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 212878</b>, adult male, collected on Epi Island, 16.43S, 168.15E (USBGN, 1974c), Vanuatu (<i>5</i> New Hebrides), on 4 August 1926, by Virginia Correia. From the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 21786). COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype and the range of <i>superciliaris</i> that included the following islands in Vanuatu, specimens from which are paratypes: Epi, <b>AMNH 212879–212885</b>, <b>212897–212902</b>, <b>213634–213636</b>, <b>221789</b> (11 males, six females); Paama (<i>5</i> Pauuma), <b>AMNH 212886– 212896</b>, <b>213637</b>, <b>213638</b> (six males, seven females); Ambrym, <b>AMNH 216185–216194</b>, <b>216206</b> (three males, eight females); Malakula (<i>5</i> Malekula), <b>AMNH 213639–213645</b> (five males, two females); Pentacose (<i>5</i> Pentecost), <b>AMNH 216195–216203</b>, <b>218407</b> (six males, four females); Maewo (<i>5</i> Aurora), <b>AMNH 218388–218392</b> (three males, two females). Of these paratypes, the following were exchanged: AMNH 216202 to J. Berlioz in October 1932 (presumably now in MNHN); AMNH 216185 and 216187 to Cleveland Museum in January 1932; AMNH 216188 to BBM in January 1932; AMNH 212900, 216189 to ANSP; AMNH 216191 to USNM in January 1932; and AMNH 216193 to ZMB in January 1932. The publication of <i>superciliaris</i> was in February 1932; presumably these exchanges were made after Mayr’s manuscript was completed. Salomonsen (1967: 431) included this species in his large genus <i>Phylidonyris</i>, and this was followed by Bregulla (1992: 243– 244). Dickinson (2003: 439) used Mathews’ name <i>Glycifohia</i>, citing Wolters (1979: 260) and Boles and Longmore (1985), and this was followed by Higgins et al. (2008: 631).
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 148
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