Zosterops luteirostris Hartert 1904
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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Zosteropidae
Zosterops

description: <i>Zosterops luteirostris</i> Hartert <i>Zosterops luteirostris</i> Hartert, 1904b: 61 (Insula Salomonis Gizo dicta). Now <i>Zosterops luteirostris</i> Hartert, 1904. See Mees, 1961a: 145–146, Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396–397, Dickinson, 2003: 628, and van Balen, 2008: 463–464. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 700727</b>, adult male, collected on Gizo Island, 08.04S, 156.45E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 2 November 1903, by Albert S. Meek (no. A724). From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Meek’s unique field number of the holotype but no indication of how many specimens he examined. Rothschild and Hartert (1905: 266) reported that Meek had collected five males and five females, giving Meek’s field numbers for them. Eight of the nine paratypes came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection; they were all collected by Meek on Gizo in 1903 (not 1902, as in Hartert, 1904b: 61): females, <b>AMNH 700723</b> (Meek no. A606), 23 October; <b>AMNH 700- 724</b> (A761), 5 November; <b>AMNH 700725</b> (A748), 4 November; <b>AMNH 700726</b> (A633), 26 October; males, <b>AMNH 700728</b> (A795), 8 November; <b>AMNH 700729</b> (A855) 14 November; <b>AMNH 700730</b> (A803), 9 November; <b>AMNH 700731</b> (A840), 13 November. The ninth paratype should have Meek’s no. A631. Various authors have considered this population and the next either as separate species (Mees, 1961a: 145–147; van Balen, 2008: 463), as species in the superspecies <i>luteirostris</i> (Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396– 397), or as subspecies in <i>Z. luteirostris</i> (Mayr, 1967: 312; Dickinson, 2003: 628).
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 23
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