Aplonis grandis subsp. macrura Mayr 1931
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr
Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr, 1931b: 21 (Guadalcanar Island (British Solomon Islands)).
Now Aplonis grandis macrura Mayr, 1931. See Amadon, 1962a: 81; Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 400; Dickinson, 2003: 652; and Craig and Feare, 2009: 719.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 218560, adult male, collected on Guadalcanal (= Guadalcanar) Island, Solomon Islands (= British Solomon Islands), on 23 July 1927, by Rollo H. Beck and Frederick P. Drowne on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 26862).
COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description. Paratypes are: AMNH 218552–218559, 223185–223195, 223207–223218, 17 males, 14 females, 16–25 April, 17–30 May, and 12–25 July 1927. On 23 July 1927, the expedition ship France was anchored near Cape Hunter and personnel had gone east to the Itina River, 09.48S, 159.51 E (USBGN, 1974a), from the mouth of which they collected up to 4000 feet.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1927-07-23
- Family
- Sturnidae
- Genus
- Aplonis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 218560
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Mayr
- Species
- macrura
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1927-07-23
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aplonis grandis subsp. macrura Mayr, 1931 sec. Lecroy, 2014
References
- Mayr, E. 1931 b. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XVII. The birds of Malaita Island (British Solomon Islands). American Museum Novitates 504: 1 - 26.
- Mayr, E. 1931 a. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XIII. A systematic list of the birds of Rennell Island with descriptions of new species and subspecies. American Museum Novitates 486: 1 - 29.
- 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.
- Mayr, E., and J. M. Diamond. 2001. The birds of northern Melanesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 492 pp, 9 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.