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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.