Cinnyris sericea subsp. vicina Mayr
Creators: name: Pachycephalidae
name: Aegithalidae
name: Remizidae
name: Paridae
name: Sittidae
name: Neosittidae
name: Certhiidae
name: Rhabdornithidae
name: Climacteridae
name: Dicaeidae
name: Pardalotidae
name: Nectariniidae, And
name: Lecroy, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Nectariniidae
Cinnyris

description: <i>Cinnyris sericea vicina</i> Mayr <i>Cinnyris sericea vicina</i> Mayr, 1936: 5 (Simbang (Huon Gulf), Mand. Terr. of New Guinea). Now <i>Leptocoma aspasia vicina</i> (Mayr, 1936). See Beehler and Finch, 1985: 46, Coates, 1990: 304– 305, Dickinson, 2003: 707, Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 268–269. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 448980</b>, adult female, collected at Simbang, 06.35S, 147.50E (USBGN, 1943), Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, on 21 August 1899, by E.O.A. Nyman. From the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of <i>vicina</i> as Doini Island and north coast of southeastern New Guinea between Collingwood Bay and Huon Gulf. The following are paratypes: Doini Island, collected by Zimmer, <b>AMNH 295658– 295660</b>, two males, one female, November 1920; Kumusi River, collected by Meek, <b>AMNH 687098–687102</b>, two males, two immature males, one female; Haidana, Collingwood Bay, collected by Meek, <b>AMNH 687103</b>, male, 13 April 1907; Simbang, collected by Nyman, <b>AMNH 687104– 687116</b>, seven males, four immature males, two females, August and September 1899. AMNH 295659 and 295660 were exchanged to FMNH in the mid 1960s. Beehler and Finch (1985: 46) and Coates (1990: 304) listed this species as <i>Nectarinia aspasia</i>, following Hachisuka (1952: 23) and Mees (1966: 257) who pointed out that, in the genus <i>Cinnyris</i>, <i>Cinnyris sericea</i> Lesson, 1827 was preoccupied by <i>C</i> [<i>erthia</i>] <i>sericea</i> Bechstein, 1811 (5 <i>Cinnyris coccinigastra</i> (Latham)). <i>Cinnyris aspasia</i> Lesson and Garnot, 1828, then becomes the next available specific name, and <i>Nectarinia</i> Illiger, 1811, an older generic name than <i>Cinnyris</i> Cuvier, 1816, should be used as the generic name. Because Hachisuka (1952) replaced <i>sericea</i> with <i>aspasia</i> before 1961, <i>sericea</i> is permanently invalid, even though the secondary homonyms concerned apply to taxa no longer considered congeneric (ICZN, 1999: 62, Art. 59.3), and should not have been resurrected by Dickinson (2003: 707) and Cheke and Mann (2008a: 268–269). See Browning and Monroe (1991: 384) and references therein for date of 1816 for publication of <i>Cinnyris</i> Cuvier. Rand (1967: 240) did not recognize the subspecies <i>vicina</i>.
description: Published as part of <i>Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And &amp; Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333)</i> on page 137
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