Ailuroedus melanotis subsp. astigmaticus Mayr 1931
Creators: name: Steinheimer, Frank D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Ptilonorhynchidae
Ailuroedus
Ailuroedus melanotis
Ailuroedus melanotis astigmaticus mayr, 1931

description: <i>Ailuroedus melanotis astigmaticus</i> Mayr, 1931 Mayr, E. (1931): Die Vögel des Saruwaged­ und Herzoggebirges (NO­Neuguinea). <i>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin</i> 17(5): 647 [639–723]. Now <i>Ailuroedus melanotis astigmaticus</i> Mayr, 1931. See Frith and Frith 2004: 237. In Mayr 1962a: 174 as <i>Ailuroedus crassirostris astigmaticus</i>, followed by Dickinson 2003: 427. Gilliard 1969: 266 pointed out why he considered <i>A. melanotis</i> and <i>A. crassirostris</i> to be separate species. HOLOTYPE: <b>ZMB 30.1973</b>. Adult male. Loc.: Ogeramnang [Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea, 6°29' S, 147°22' E]. Date: 30 March 1929. Coll.: Mayr No. 1216. Iris: red (blood?). Bill: grey. Testes: small. Weight: 216 gms. [Skin; data on Mayr ZMB label]. PARATYPES: <b>ZMB 30.1970</b>.? Male [= immature male, cf. Mayr 1931]. Loc.: Junzaing. Date: 21 January 1929. Coll.: Mayr No. 445. [Skin; data on Mayr ZMB label; no further data]. <b>ZMB 30.1971</b>.? Female [= immature female, cf. Mayr 1931]. Loc.: Junzaing. Date: [February 1929, cf. Mayr 1931]. Coll.: Mayr No. 512 [on primary field label, 1386 on Mayr ZMB label; no further data]. [Skin]. <b>ZMB 30.1972</b>. Male [= immature male, cf. Mayr 1931]. Loc.: Ogeramnang. Date: 27 March 1929. Coll.: Mayr No. 1195. Iris: brown. Bill: whitish grey. Feet: light grey. Testes: small. Weight: 201 gms. [Skin; data on Mayr ZMB label]. COMMENTS: Dr. Ernst Mayr (1904–2005) collected in the Saruwaget Mountains from 8 December 1928 to 9 April 1929. The operative base was Finschhafen, the coastal town of the Huon­Peninsula, NE­New Guinea. The village Ogeramnang is situated in the foothills of the Saruwaget Mountains at 1785m a.s.l. (see Mayr 1931: 640–646, Greenway 1935, Haffer 1997: 440–446, 809–811 and Steinheimer 2004: 94).
description: Published as part of <i>Steinheimer, Frank D., 2005, The type specimens of Paradisaeidae, Cnemophilidae and Ptilonorhynchidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde of the Humboldt-University of Berlin, pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 1072 (1)</i> on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1072.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050709
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