Meliphaga flaviventer subsp. tararae Salomonsen
Creators: name: , Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Meliphagidae
Meliphaga

description: <i>Meliphaga flaviventer tararae</i> Salomonsen <i>Meliphaga flaviventer tararae</i> Salomonsen, 1966a: 6 (Tarara, Wassi Kussa River, 90 miles west of Daru, British Papua (western division), southern New Guinea). Now <i>Xanthotis flaviventer saturatior</i> (Rothschild and Hartert, 1903). See Rand, 1938: 14, Coates, 1990: 275–277, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 227– 228, and Higgins et al., 2008: 689–690. HOLOTYPE: <b>AMNH 428247</b>, adult male, collected at Tarara, ca. 08.50S, 141.50E (see map in Rand and Brass, 1940), Wassi Kussa River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 8 December 1936, by R. Archbold, A.L. Rand, and G.H.H. Tate on the 1936– 1937 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 6321). COMMENTS: Salomonsen gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and considered the range of <i>tararae</i> to be from the middle and lower Fly River west to about the Digul River. Paratypes in AMNH are: Wuroi, Oriomo River, <b>AMNH 422314–422320</b>, six males and one female; Daru, <b>AMNH 425242</b>, male; Mabaduan, <b>AMNH 425243</b>, <b>425244</b>, two males; Tarara, Wassi Kussa River, <b>AMNH 425245, 425246, 425248–425258</b>, seven males and six females; Lake Daviumbu, <b>AMNH 428198–428211</b>, ten males and four females; Fly River, east bank opposite Sturt Island, <b>AMNH 428212–428230</b>, 14 males and five females; Gaima, <b>AMNH 428231–428241</b>, four males and seven females. Rand (1938: 14) had included these specimens in <i>saturatior</i>, commenting that specimens from the middle Fly River showed evidence of gene flow between them and specimens from the upper Fly. Schodde and Mason (1999: 228) also included all of the Fly River specimens in <i>saturatior</i>, commenting that the slightly paler coloration of specimens from the lower Fly River may possibly be the result of past gene flow from <i>filigera</i> of Cape York Peninsula. See Rand and Brass (1940) for a summary of the expedition and description of the collecting localities.
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 104
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