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Climacteris rufa subsp. orientalis Mathews

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

Description

Climacteris rufa orientalis Mathews

Climacteris rufa orientalis Mathews, 1912a: 382 (South Australia).

Now Climacteris rufus Gould, 1841. See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 76, and Noske,2007b:659–660.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 684990, adult male, collected in South Australia, in January 1894. From the Mathews Collection (no. 2800) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description. It bears Rothschild and Mathews type labels and a Mathews collection label, each marked with the catalog number. The collection label is also marked ‘‘Type’’ by Mathews; the number ‘‘703’’ on this label refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). Only one additional Mathews specimen from South Australia, collected before the publication of orientalis, came to AMNH: paratype, AMNH 684991 (Mathews no. 2804), female, collected in South Australia in January 1894.

The original label is not present on either of these specimens. According to Richard Schodde (personal commun.), these specimens almost certainly came from the northern Eyre Peninsula (Gawler Range), the only area in the range of this species that was accessible to ornithological exploration at the time.

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 page 100

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Family
Climacteridae
Genus
Climacteris
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMNH 684990 , AMNH 684991
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Mathews
Species
orientalis
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype , paratype

References

  • Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446.
  • Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.
  • Noske, R. A. 2007 b. Family Climacteridae (Australian treecreepers). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, volume 12: 642 - 660. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 816 pp., 56 pls., 436 photographs.
  • Mathews, G. M. 1908. Handlist of the birds of Australasia. Emu 7 supplement: 1 - 108.