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

description: <i>Meliornis pyrrhoptera indistincta</i> Mathews <i>Meliornis pyrrhoptera indistincta</i> Mathews, 1912a: 414 (South Australia). Now <i>Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus halmaturinus</i> (A.G. Campbell, 1906). See Salomonsen, 1967: 426, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 309–310, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 666–667. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 692052</b>, adult male, collected in the Mount Lofty Range, 35.00S, 138.50E (USBGN, 1957), South Australia, Australia, on 23 May 1910, by J.B. Cleland. From the Mathews Collection (no. 5565) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as ‘‘ Victoria, South Australia.’’ Paratypes are specimens from those two states that were in Mathews’ collection before 31 January 1912, the publication date of <i>indistincta</i>. The following were found in Mathews’ catalog and are definitely paratypes: <b>AMNH 692053</b> (Mathews no. 5566), female, Mount Lofty, 17 May 1910, by J.B. Cleland; <b>AMNH 692054</b> (5946), female, Mount Lofty, 20 May 1911, by Cleland; <b>AMNH 692055</b> (3316), sex?, Mount Lofty, 26 May 1897; <b>AMNH 692060</b> (4970), male immature, Olinda, 1 February 1909, by L.G. Chandler (This is the specimen mentioned under <i>mixta</i>, above, as ‘‘described’’); <b>AMNH 692071</b> (6273), female [male plumage], Lang Lang, 13 April 1908, by Howe (also a syntype of <i>mixta</i>). The following specimens are possible paratypes of <i>indistincta</i>, but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog: AMNH 692057, female, Frankston, 29 September 1908, by Chandler; AMNH 692059, male, Beaconsfield, 11 June 1910, by Chandler; AMNH 692070, male, Lang Lang, 4 September 1908; and AMNH 692072, female [male plumage], Warburton, June 1903. The last three are also syntypes of <i>Phylidonyris pyrroptera mixta</i> Mathews (see above). Other specimens that had been in Mathews’ collection were either collected or cataloged after the publication date of <i>indistincta</i> or were not dated. Salomonsen (1967: 426) recognized <i>indistinctus</i>; Schodde and Mason (1999: 309–310) included it in <i>halmaturinus</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 140-141
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