Type specimens and type localities of birds collected during the Hemprich and Ehrenberg expedition to Lebanon in 1824
Author
Mlíkovský, Jiří
Author
Frahnert, Sylke
text
Zootaxa
2011
2990
1
29
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.278408
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1175-5326
278408
Cinclus rufiventris
Tristram
Cinclus cinclus
var.
rufiventris
Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833
: 54
[Nomen nudum; no description or indication.]
Cinclus rufiventris
Tristram, 1884
: 51
.
Now.
Cinclus cinclus rufiventris
Tristram, 1884
. See
Vaurie (1951b
,
1959b
: 196) and
Dickinson (2003: 698)
.
Type
series.
Tristram (1884: 51)
did not define the
type
series, but specifically referred to bird(s) labeled by
Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1833)
as
rufiventris
, and to a bird listed by
Sharpe (1881: 314)
as a variant of
cashmeriensis
. Hemprich and Ehrenberg collected only one
rufiventris
(
Lichtenstein
1825, Nr. 28
). The
type
series thus consists of two specimens listed below.
Syntype
.
ZMB
3321, skin, collected by Hemprich and Ehrenberg on an unknown date [=
5–24 July 1824
] at “Bischerre” (
Lichtenstein
1825, Nr. 28
) [= Bcharré,
Lebanon
],
Syntype
.
BMNH
1864.11.22.129, ad. 3, collected by Tristram on “Nahr el Kelb” (
Sharpe 1881
: 314; R. Prÿs- Jones in litt. 2009) [= Nahr el Kalb,
Lebanon
; river opening at
33.96°N
,
35.60°E
], possibly during
19–20 June 1864
(cf.
Tristram 1865
: 633–635).
Type
locality.
Tristram (1884: 51)
reported that
C. rufiventris
is confined to “the mountain streams in the deep gorges of the Litany river [= Nahr el Lîtâni,
Lebanon
; opening at
33.33°N
,
35.24°E
] and the
Lebanon
[= Jabal
Lubnān
,
Lebanon
]”, specifying that they were common on the “springs of Afka” [= Afqa,
Lebanon
;
34.07°N
,
35.89°E
], which he visited on
18 June 1864
(
Tristram 1865: 633
). Nevertheless, the
type
locality is defined by collecting localities of
syntypes
(
ICZN
1999, Art. 76.1
). We thus restrict here the
type
locality to Bcharré,
Lebanon
(Hemprich and Ehrenberg specimen) and Nahr el Kalb,
Lebanon
(Tristram specimen).
Remarks.
Tristram (1884: 51)
described the subspecies explicitly using the name
rufiventris
created by
Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1833: 54)
. The name is a pure nomen nudum in the latter paper, so
Tristram (1884: 51)
is its author in the sense of the Code (
ICZN 1999, Art. 51.1
).