Lonchura monticola subsp. myolae Restall
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Description
Lonchura monticola myolae Restall
Lonchura monticola myolae Restall, 1995: 145 (Mt. Scratchley and Mt. Knotsford [sic], Owen Stanley Range, Papua New Guinea).
Now Lonchura monticola (De Vis, 1897). See LeCroy, 1999: 216–217; Dickinson, 2003: 736; and Payne, 2010: 373–374.
LECTOTYPE: AMNH 721471 (not 421471), unsexed, collected on Mount Scratchley, 08.40S, 147.30E (PNG General Reference Map, 1984), Owen Stanley Mountains, Papua New Guinea, undated, collector not noted. From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Restall designated syntypes in the original description by citing (incorrectly) the AMNH numbers. The second listed syntype was AMNH 721469 (not 421469) from Mount Knutsford (not Knotsford) in the Owen Stanley Mountains south of Mount Scratchley. According to Rothschild and Hartert (1915: 55) both of these specimens were collected by A.S. Anthony.
Restall said that the type locality of nominate Lonchura monticola was Mount ‘‘Edward Albert’’; however, its type locality is not Mount Albert Edward, but is Mount Scratchley, the same as that from which he named myolae. For a discussion of these localities and the types of Lonchura monticola, see LeCroy (1999: 216–217). Because the syntypes of myolae are from different localities and the position of the two localities were confused in the original description, I (LeCroy, 1999: 216) designated AMNH 721471 from Mount Scratchley as the lectotype of L. m. myolae. Thus it becomes a topotypical synonym of the nominate form. The specimens in AMNH, including the paralectotype, AMNH 721469, from Mount Knutsford do not appear to differ from Mount Scratchley specimens. Although Hicks (1987: 60) observed L. monticola at Myola and reported it as a downward extension of range, he noted no color differences and there are no specimens known from Myola.
Sharpe (1898: 60) described Munia nigritorquis from Mt. Albert Edward. M. nigritorquis has been shown to be a synonym of L. monticola (Mayr 1941: 222). Thus, the known range of L. monticola extends from Mount Albert Edward, 08.25S, 147.25E, at least to Mount Knutsford, 08.50S, 147.27E, in the Owen Stanley Mountains, including the Wharton Range.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Family
- Estrildidae
- Genus
- Lonchura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 721471
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Restall
- Species
- myolae
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- lectotype
References
- Restall, R. [L.]. 1995. Proposed additions to the genus Lonchura (Estrildinae). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 115: 140 - 157.
- LeCroy, M. 1999. Type specimens of new forms of Lonchura. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 119: 214 - 220.
- Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
- Payne, R. B. 2010. Family Estrildidae (waxbills), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world, vol. 15, weavers to New World warblers: 299 - 377. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., photographs.
- Rothschild, W., and E. Hartert. 1915. Notes on Papuan birds. XXXIII. Ploceidae. Novitates Zoologicae 22: 55 - 59.
- Hicks, R. 1987. An extension of altitude range for two mannikin species. Muruk 2 (2): 60.
- Sharpe, R. B. 1898. [Two species of Munia appeared to be undescribed, and Dr. Sharpe proposed the following names for them]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 7: 60.
- Mayr, E. 1941. List of New Guinea birds. New York: American Museum of Natural History, xi + 260 pp., gazetteer, map.