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

description: <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae subassimilis</i> Mathews <i>Meliornis novaehollandiae subassimilis</i> Mathews, 1912a: 415 (South Australia (Mt. Lofty Ranges)). 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 692158</b>, adult male, collected in the Mount Lofty Range, 35.00S, 138.50E (USBGN, 1957), east of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, on 35 July 1911, by S.A. White (no. 11). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9298) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of <i>subassimilis</i> as ‘‘ South Australia.’’ The holotype bears White’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. The following AMNH specimens are paratypes: <b>AMNH 692141</b> (9671), male, Warunda Creek, Eyre Peninsula, 27 August 1911, by S.A. White; <b>AMNH 692142</b> (9670), immature male, Port Lincoln, Eyre Peninsula, 23 August 1911, by S.A. White; <b>AMNH 692157</b> (Mathews no. 9701), male, Mount Lofty Range, 12 August 1911, by S.A. White; <b>AMNH 692162</b> (8942), male, Coonalpyn, 17 May 1911, by J.B. Cleland; <b>AMNH 692163</b> (8941), juvenile, Coonalpyn, 17 May 1911, by Cleland. AMNH 692156, male, Mount Lofty Range, 23 May 1910, by S.A. White is also probably a paratype, but I did not find it in Mathews catalog. Other Mathews specimens in AMNH from South Australia were either collected after the 31 January 1912 publication of <i>subassimilis</i> or were undated. There is an additional paratype in SAMA (B. Blaylock, personal commun.). AMNH 692142, immature male, is marked ‘‘described’’ on a label and was the specimen used for the description of the immature male (Mathews, 1925a: 16–17). AMNH 692162 bears a blank Rothschild type label and Cleland’s label is marked ‘‘Type’’ in Mathews’ hand, but no evidence has been discovered that a name was based on this specimen; the type label has been so annotated and the specimen returned to the general collection.
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 142
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