Aplonis tabuensis subsp. nesiotes Mayr 1942
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Aplonis tabuensis nesiotes Mayr
Aplonis tabuensis nesiotes Mayr, 1942: 3 (Niuafou Island, central Polynesia).
Now Aplonis tabuensis nesiotes Mayr, 1942. See Amadon, 1962a: 78; Pratt et al., 1987: 273–274; Dickinson, 2003: 652–653; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 723.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 250751, adult male, collected on Niuafo’ou (= Niuafou) Island, 15.36S, 175.39W (Times Atlas), Tonga, on 17 August 1925, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 19041).
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype and gave the range as Niuafo’ou Island. Paratypes are: AMNH 224293, 250749, 250750, 250752–250762, 11 males, three females, 17–18 August 1925. AMNH 250754 and 250762 were exchanged with DMNH and are now DMNH 18261 and 18262, respectively (J. Woods, personal commun.).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1925-08-17
- Family
- Sturnidae
- Genus
- Aplonis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 250751
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Mayr
- Species
- nesiotes
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1925-08-17
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aplonis tabuensis subsp. nesiotes Mayr, 1942 sec. Lecroy, 2014
References
- Mayr, E. 1942. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XLVIII. Notes on the Polynesian species of Aplonis. American Museum Novitates 1166: 1 - 6.
- Amadon, D. 1962 a. Family Sturnidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Check-list of birds of the world, 15: 75 - 121. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
- Pratt, H. D., P. L. Bruner, and D. G. Berrett. 1987. A field guide to the birds of Hawaii and the tropical Pacific. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 409 pp, 45 pls.
- Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
- Craig, A. J. F. K., and C. J. Feare. 2009. Family Sturnidae (starlings), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 14, Bush-shrikes to Old World sparrows: 711 - 758. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp, 51 pls., photographs.