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Published December 30, 2014 | Version v1
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Ploceus Bohndorffi Reichenow

Creators

  • 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History

Description

Ploceus Bohndorffi Reichenow

Ploceus Bohndorffi Reichenow, 1887: 214 (Stanley- Fälle).

Now Ploceus cucullatus bohndorffi Reichenow, 1887. See Hartert, 1919: 139; Chapin, 1954b: 351–355; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 46; Dickinson, 2003: 721; Fry and Keith, 2004: 164–170; and Craig, 2010: 165–166.

SYNTYPE (perhaps holotype): AMNH 724091, unsexed [adult male], collected at Stanley Falls, 00.18N, 25.30E (Times Atlas), Congo (Kinshasa), in March, by F. Bohndorff. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Reichenow did not give the sex of the bird he described or say how many specimens he examined, but he gave only one set of measurements and perhaps had only a single specimen. Hartert (1919: 139) also did not know how many specimens were involved in the original description as he referred to the above specimen as ‘‘ Type (or cotype)’’; the only locality referred to was Stanley Falls. A second specimen collected by Bohndorff at Kasango in June is not considered part of the type series.

Most authors recognize the subspecies bohndorffi; however, Craig (2010: 165) synonymized it with nominate cucullatus.

Notes

Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 23, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ploceidae
Genus
Ploceus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Bohndorffi Reichenow
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Reichenow, A. 1887. Neue Vogelarten aus dem oberen Kongo-Gebiet. Journal fur Ornithologie 35: 213 - 215.
  • Hartert, E. 1919. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the general collection. Novitates Zoologicae 26: 123 - 178.
  • Chapin, J. P. 1954 b. The birds of the Belgian Congo, Part 4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 75 B: ix + 846 pp., 27 pls.
  • Moreau, R. E., and J. C. Greenway, Jr. 1962. Family Ploceidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Check-list of birds of the world, 15: 3 - 75. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
  • Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
  • Fry, C. H. and S. Keith (editors). 2004. The birds of Africa, vol. 7. Princeton: Princeton University Press, xxi + 666 pp, 36 pls.
  • Craig, A. J. F. K. 2010. Family Ploceidae (weavers), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 15, weavers to New World warblers: 132 - 197. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp, 60 pls., photographs.