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. See
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,
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, 188, and
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, adult male, collected at Day Dawn,
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,
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(
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, 1957),
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,
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, on
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, by F.L. [Whitlock] (no. 282).
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the
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(no. 5321) via the Rothschild Collection.
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COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the
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in the original description; the specimen bears, in addition to Whitlocks label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a Figured label, indicating that it was illustrated in
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: pl. 516, opp. p. 317, text p. 323) where it is confirmed as the type of
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. This single specimen of
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<emphasis id="B971EAE6FFFDFF8BFEBAFA7C3819F9B4" box="[325,382,1531,1552]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="70">niger</emphasis>
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was acquired from WAM (no. 5828) in 1910.
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B05FFFDFF8BFE5EF99039E8F9EF" author="Mathews, G. M." pageId="70" pageNumber="70" pagination="171 - 446" refId="ref154717" refString="Mathews, G. M. 1912 a. A reference-list to the birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171 - 446." type="journal article" year="1912">Mathews (1912a: 396)</bibRefCitation>
gave the range of
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as
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. Three additional Western Australian specimens from the Mathews collection came to AMNH and I consider them
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:
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(Mathews no. 3942), immature, Bore Well, East Murch- ison,
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;
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(3941), adult male, East Murchison,
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;
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(no. not found), nestling, East Murchison,
<date id="FFBB1034FFFDFF8BFBD1FEAA3BB2FEC4" pageId="70" pageNumber="70" value="1909-09">September 1909</date>
.
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Although this species was included in the genus
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by
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, they suggested the subgenus
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, a generic name introduced by
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, with
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<emphasis id="B971EAE6FFFDFF8BFBCEFE583A40FDB0" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="70">Myzomela nigra ashby</emphasis>
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[sic]. Subsequently,
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B05FFFDFF8BFBC1FE7A3A7CFD95" author="Mathews, G. M." pageId="70" pageNumber="70" pagination="509 - 541" refId="ref155442" refString="Mathews, G. M. 1924. The birds of Australia. Vol. 11, pts. 4 - 9. London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 209 - 593, pls. 509 - 541." type="book chapter" year="1924">Mathews (1924: 328)</bibRefCitation>
referred to this species as
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<emphasis id="B971EAE6FFFDFF8BFBB8FD9D3BB3FDEA" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="70">Sugomel niger</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, showing that he considered it masculine. Molecular studies by
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B05FFFDFF8BFBF5FDD13A3AFD2E" author="Driskell, A. C. &amp; L. Christidis" pageId="70" pageNumber="70" pagination="943 - 960" refId="ref149750" refString="Driskell, A. C., and L. Christidis. 2004. Phylogeny and evolution of the Australo-Papuan honeyeaters (Passeriformes, Meliphagidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 943 - 960." type="journal article" year="2004">Driskell and Christidis (2004)</bibRefCitation>
found that the three species included in
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<emphasis id="B971EAE6FFFDFF8BFCC1FD163AD9FD0C" box="[830,958,657,680]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="70">Certhionyx</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by Schodde and Mason fell into three different clades, and
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B05FFFDFF8BFD64FD4A3D62FD47" author="Christidis, L. &amp; W. E. Boles" box="[667,1029,717,739]" pageId="70" pageNumber="70" refId="ref148941" refString="Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp." type="book" year="2008">Christidis and Boles (2008: 186</bibRefCitation>
, 188) adopted for
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<emphasis id="B971EAE6FFFDFF8BFD2DFD6C3A6CFCA4" box="[722,779,747,768]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="70">niger</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the monotypic genus
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<emphasis id="B971EAE6FFFDFF8BFBBFFD6D3DC5FCA5" box="[1088,1186,746,769]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="70">Sugomel</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B05FFFDFF8BFD64FC8F3A80FCBA" author="Higgins, P. J. &amp; L. Christidis &amp; H. A. Ford" box="[667,999,776,798]" pageId="70" pageNumber="70" pagination="498 - 691" refId="ref152995" refString="Higgins, P. J., L. Christidis, and H. A. Ford. 2008. Meliphagidae (honeyeaters). In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and D. Christie (editors), Handbook of birds of the world, vol. 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes: 498 - 691. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp., 60 pls., 536 photographs." type="book chapter" year="2008">Higgins et al. (2008: 636)</bibRefCitation>
suggested that
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<emphasis id="B971EAE6FFFDFF8BFD64FCA23B9AFC98" box="[667,765,805,828]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="70">Sugomel</emphasis>
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is neuter because it ends in a Latin neuter noun, without explaning this. Mathews might have been equally likely to have based his name on Greek roots meaning either black (melas) or honey (meli). Because the derivation of
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<emphasis id="B971EAE6FFFDFF8BFC21FC3E3D27FC74" box="[990,1088,953,976]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="70">Sugomel</emphasis>
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is questionable and because Mathews considered the name masculine, Art. 30.2.3 of the Code (ICZN, 1999: 36) is applicable and the species name should be
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<emphasis id="B971EAE6FFFDFF8BFC91FBB73AAAFBE2" box="[878,973,1072,1094]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="70">S. niger</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, as was correctly listed by
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B05FFFDFF8BFCEAFBC93DC1FBC0" author="Christidis, L. &amp; W. E. Boles" box="[789,1190,1102,1124]" pageId="70" pageNumber="70" refId="ref148941" refString="Christidis, L., and W. E. Boles. 2008. Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, viii + 277 pp." type="book" year="2008">Christidis and Boles (2008: 186</bibRefCitation>
. 188).
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