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Certhia familiaris subsp. jaliscensis Miller and Griscom

  • 1. Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History (lecroy @ amnh. org)

Description

Certhia familiaris jaliscensis Miller and Griscom

Certhia familiaris jaliscensis Miller and Griscom, 1925: 6 (Volcan de Nieve, Sierra Nevada de Colima, 13,000 ft., Jalisco, Mexico).

Now Certhia americana alticola G.S. Miller, 1895. See Hejl et al., 2002: 5, and Harrap, 2008c: 182– 183.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 105852, adult male, collected on Volcan de Nieve, 13,000 ft, 19.31N, 103.38W (USBGN, 1956a), Sierra Nevada de Colima, southern Jalisco, Mexico, on 6 September 1905, by J.H. Batty.

COMMENTS: Miller and Griscom gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed nine specimens, including the type, comprising their type series. The eight paratypes are: collected by A. Buller, AMNH 36819, male, Zapotlan, 19 December 1889; collected by J.H. Batty in 1905, AMNH 105156, male, La Cienaga, 20 April; AMNH 105847, female, Volcan de Fuego, 27 July; AMNH 105848, female, Las Cañas, 13 July; AMNH 105849, immature male, Pisagua, 4 July; AMNH 105850, male, Volcan Colima, 21 July; AMNH 105851, immature male, Volcan de Nieve, 20 July; and AMNH 105853, female, Volcan Nieve, 5 September.

Dickinson (2003: 647) recognized jaliscensis.

Notes

Published as part of Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, pp. 1-178 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333) on pages 93-94

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH , USBGN
Event date
1889-12-19 , 1905-09-06
Family
Certhiidae
Genus
Certhia
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 105156 , AMNH 105847 , AMNH 105848 , AMNH 105849 , AMNH 105850 , AMNH 105851 , AMNH 105852 , AMNH 105853 , AMNH 36819
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Miller and Griscom
Species
jaliscensis
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1889-12-19 , 1905-09-06

References

  • Miller, W. DeW., and L. Griscom. 1925. Notes on Central American birds, with descriptions of new forms. American Museum Novitates 183: 1 - 14.
  • Hejl, S. J., K. R. Newlon, M. E. McFadzen, J. S. Young, and C. K. Ghalambor. 2002. Brown Creeper (Certhia americana). In A. Poole and F. Gill (editors), The birds of North America: no. 669. Philadelphia: The Birds of North America, Inc.
  • Harrap, S. 2008 c. Family Certhiidae (treecreepers). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 13: 166 - 187. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 880 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs.
  • Dickinson, E. C. (editor). 2003. The Howard & Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.