Meliornis novaehollandiae subsp. myponga Mathews
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Meliornis

description: <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae myponga</i> Mathews <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae myponga</i> Mathews, 1925a: 16 (Myponga). Now <i>Phylidonyris novaehollandiae novaehollandiae</i> (Latham, 1790). See Salomonsen, 1967: 427, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 311–312, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 667–668. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 692152</b>, adult male, collected at Myponga, 35.24S, 138.27E (USBGN, 1957), South Australia, Australia, on 21 March 1912, by S.A. White (no. 617). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12324) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews (1925a: pl. 544, opp. p. 14, text p. 16) described and figured the adult male collected on 21 March 1912, designating it the type of <i>myponga</i>. It is the only specimen in AMNH collected on that date and it bears in addition to White’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The Mathews type label bears the annotation ‘‘ Figured’ ’ and Mathews’ catalog number ‘‘12324,’’ although that number was not given in the original description. The following four AMNH specimens collected by S.A. White at Myponga in 1912 are paratypes: <b>AMNH 692151</b> (Mathews no. 12325, White no. 620), 22 March, <b>AMNH 692153</b> (12328, 618), 24 March, males; <b>AMNH 692154</b> (12327, 621), 21 March, <b>AMNH 692155</b> (12326, 619), 22 March, females. [<i>Meliornis novaehollandiae campbelli</i> Mathews] Based on specimens from Kangaroo Island, A.G. Campbell (1906: 140) named both <i>Meliornis</i> (<i>Lichmera</i>) <i>australasiana</i> subsp. <i>halmaturina</i>, now <i>Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera halmaturina</i>, and <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina</i>, now in <i>Phylidonyris,</i> the former name having line precedence over the latter in homonymy. <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae campbelli</i> was provided by Mathews as a replacement name for <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina</i> A.G. Campbell, 1906. Despite the fact that Mathews (1923b: 38) called <i>campbelli</i> a new subspecies, he (Mathews, 1925a: 22) later made it clear that he intended it as a replacement name: ‘‘As both [of Campbell’s names] are here grouped in the same genus the last named one [<i>Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina</i>] must be invalid and I have renamed it.’’ As such, it has the same type as Campbell’s original name, a type that is in NMV (W. Longmore, personal commun.). See Schodde and Mason (1999: 312, nomenclatural note). Based on specimens from Kangaroo Island, A.G. Campbell (1906: 140) named both <i>Meliornis</i> (<i>Lichmera</i>) <i>australasiana</i> subsp. <i>halmaturina</i>, now <i>Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera halmaturina</i>, and <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina</i>, now in <i>Phylidonyris,</i> the former name having line precedence over the latter in homonymy. <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae campbelli</i> was provided by Mathews as a replacement name for <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina</i> A.G. Campbell, 1906. Despite the fact that Mathews (1923b: 38) called <i>campbelli</i> a new subspecies, he (Mathews, 1925a: 22) later made it clear that he intended it as a replacement name: ‘‘As both [of Campbell’s names] are here grouped in the same genus the last named one [<i>Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina</i>] must be invalid and I have renamed it.’’ As such, it has the same type as Campbell’s original name, a type that is in NMV (W. Longmore, personal commun.). See Schodde and Mason (1999: 312, nomenclatural note).
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 143
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