Perisoreus canadensis subsp. sanfordi Oberholser 1914
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Perisoreus canadensis sanfordi Oberholser
Perisoreus canadensis sanfordi Oberholser, 1914: 49 (Fox Island River, Newfoundland).
Now Perisoreus canadensis canadensis (Linnaeus, 1766). See Hellmayr, 1934: 66–70; Blake and Vaurie, 1962: 236–238; Strickland and Ouellet, 1993: 3; Dickinson, 2003: 505; dos Anjos, 2009: 591–592.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 388226, adult male, collected on Fox Island River, 48.42N,
58.40W (Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, 1968), Newfoundland, Canada, on 28 June 1912, by Leonard C. Sanford. From the Sanford Collection (no. 506).
COMMENTS: In the original description, Oberholser designated the male collected on 28 June 1912 as the type of sanfordi. He had three paratypes (Oberholser, 1914: chart on p. 50), only two of which are in AMNH: Fox Island River, AMNH 756009, male, AMNH 756015, female, both collected on 5 July 1912. I did not find the third, a female collected on Fox Island River on 12 July 1912, either in the catalog or in the collection. The holotype was cataloged at the time Oberholser named sanfordi; the remainder of the Sanford Collection was cataloged much later, when only 756009 and 756015 were cataloged, along with two juvenile specimens that were not part of Oberholser’s type series.
Hellmayr (1934: 66) synonymized sanfordi with P. c. nigricapillus and this has been followed by most subsequent authors; Strickland and Ouellet (1993: 3) and dos Anjos (2009: 591) subsequently synonymized nigricapillus with nominate canadensis. Van Els et al. (2012) studied genetic diversity in Perisoreus canadensis and their results suggested a widespread boreal clade with evidence of a glacial refugium in Newfoundland.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1912-06-28
- Family
- Corvidae
- Genus
- Perisoreus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 388226 , AMNH 756009, AMNH 756015
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Oberholser
- Species
- sanfordi
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 1912-06-28/07-12
- Taxonomic concept label
- Perisoreus canadensis subsp. sanfordi Oberholser, 1914 sec. Lecroy, 2014
References
- Oberholser, H. C. 1914. Four new birds from Newfoundland. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 27: 43 - 54.
- Hellmayr, C. E. 1934. Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Part VII. Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 330, Zoological Series, 13: 531.
- Blake, E. R., and C. Vaurie. 1962. Family Corvidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Check-list of birds of the world, 15: 204 - 282. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
- Strickland, D., and H. Ouellet. 1993. Gray Jay (Perisoreus canadensis). In A. Poole, P. Stettenheim and F. Gill (editors). The birds of North America, no. 40. Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences. Washington, DC: American Ornithologists' Union.
- Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
- dos Anjos, L. 2009. Family Corvidae (crows). 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: 566 - 640. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp. 51 pls., photographs.
- Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names. 1968. Gazetteer of Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador, 1 st ed. Ottawa: Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, xiii + 252 pp, maps.
- van Els, P., C. Cicero, and J. Klicka. 2012. High latitudes and high genetic diversity: phylogeography of a widespread boreal bird, the Gray Jay (Perisoreus canadensis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 456 - 465.