Epimachus meyeri subsp. megarhynchus Mayr and Gilliard
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Epimachus meyeri megarhynchus Mayr and Gilliard
Epimachus meyeri megarhynchus Mayr and Gilliard, 1951: 10 (Gebroeders Mountains, Weyland Range, Dutch New Guinea).
Now Epimachus meyeri albicans (van Oort, 1915). See Mayr, 1962d: 191; Gilliard, 1969: 141–146; Cracraft, 1992: 20–21; Frith and Beehler, 1998: 366–376; and Frith and Frith, 2009b: 479.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 677998, adult male, collected on Brothers (= Gebroeders) Mountain, 6000–7000 ft, 03.55S, 136.08E (Frith and Beehler, 1998: 567), Pegunungan Kobowre (= Weyland Range), Papua Province (formerly Dutch New Guinea), Indonesia, on 24 July 1930, by Fred Shaw Mayer (no. 216). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr and Gilliard cited the AMNH number of the holotype and mentioned females and young males. Fred Shaw Mayer’s expedition was jointly sponsored by Rothschild and by L.C. Sanford for AMNH and his three specimens of this form were divided between the two collections. The holotype had originally been part of the Rothschild Collection share and had come to AMNH with that collection in 1932. The specimens that were part of the original AMNH share were AMNH 302945, immature male, 22 July 1930 and AMNH 302946, female, 28 July 1930, Shaw Mayer numbers 212 and 252 respectively; they are both paratypes of megarhynchus as is a single specimen collected by Georg Stein, AMNH 302367, female, Mount Kunupi, Weyland Mountains, 4 October 1931, Stein no. 2934. Shaw Mayer’s collection was reported on by Rothschild (1931) and Stein’s by Hartert et al. (1936).
Cracraft (1992: 20) synonymized megarhynchus with albicans, and later authors have agreed.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1930-07-24
- Family
- Paradisaeidae
- Genus
- Epimachus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 677998
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Mayr and Gilliard
- Species
- megarhynchus
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1930-07-24
References
- Mayr, E., and E. T. Gilliard. 1951. New species and subspecies of birds from the highlands of New Guinea. American Museum Novitates 1524: 1 - 15.
- Mayr, E. 1962 d. Family Paradisaeidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). 1962. Checklist of birds of the world, 15: 181 - 204. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
- Gilliard, E. T. 1969. Birds of paradise and bower birds. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, xxii + 485 pp, pls, 32 photographs.
- Cracraft, J. 1992. The species of the birds-ofparadise (Paradisaeidae): applying the phylogenetic species concept to a complex pattern of diversification. Cladistics 8: 1 - 43.
- Frith, C. B., and B. M. Beehler. 1998. The birds of paradise Paradisaeidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxx + 613 pp, 15 pls, black-and-white illustrations, maps, sonograms.
- Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2009 b. Family Paradisaeidae (birds-of-paradise). 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: 461 - 492. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp, 51 pls., photographs.
- Rothschild, W. 1931. On a collection of birds made by Mr. F. Shaw Mayer in the Weyland Mountans, Dutch New Guinea, in 1930. Novitates Zoologicae 36: 250 - 276.
- Hartert, E., K. Paludan, Lord Rothschild, and E. Stresemann. 1936. Die Vogel des Weyland- Gebirges und seines Vorlandes. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologisches Museum in Berlin 21: 165 - 240.