Chlorocharis emiliae Sharpe 1888
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Zosteropidae
Chlorocharis

description: <i>Chlorocharis emiliae</i> Sharpe <i>Chlorocharis emiliae</i> Sharpe, 1888a: 392 (Kina Balu, Northern Borneo). Now <i>Chlorocharis emiliae emiliae</i> Sharpe, 1888. See Mees, 1969: 212–217, Smythies, 2000: 597– 598, and van Balen, 2008: 483–484. LECTOTYPE: <b>AMNH 701481</b>, female, collected on Mount Kinabalu, 8000 ft, 06.03N, 116.32E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 27 February 1888, by John Whitehead (no. 2077). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Sharpe did not designate a type but had two specimens for which he listed Whitehead’s numbers 2077 and 2079. Hartert (1920: 437) listed as the type of <i>emiliae</i> Whitehead’s specimen no. 2077, thereby designating it the lectotype; it bears a Rothschild type label. Whitehead’s label on this specimen was marked ‘‘Type RBS[harpe]’’ by Sharpe. This is one of the cases where Whitehead sent ahead to Sharpe ‘‘a pair of most birds I thought would be new’’ (Whitehead, 1893: 185). Because Sharpe described both male and female, no. 2079 must be a male, but no other information was given; specimen 2079 did not come to AMNH. When Sharpe (1889: 63) published his account of the birds of northern Borneo collected by Whitehead on all of his trips there, he listed four specimens of <i>emiliae</i>, all collected 28 January–1 March 1888 and labeled a–d. Because Sharpe did not list Whitehead’s numbers, matching these specimens with the seven now in AMNH is not possible; some of the dates match and some do not. However, only the two specimens listed in the original description comprise the type series of <i>emiliae</i>, and number 2079, if found, would be the paralectotype. The genus <i>Chlorocharis</i> was described by Sharpe (1888a: 392, pl. XI, fig. 1) at this time, with the type species <i>Chlorocharis emiliae</i>.
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 39-40
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