Type specimens of birds in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Geneva
Author
Cibois, Alice
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland.
alice.cibois@ville-ge.ch
Author
Vallotton, Laurent
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland.
Author
Othman, Nagwa
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland.
Author
Weber, Claude
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland.
Author
Ruedi, Manuel
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland.
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Revue suisse de Zoologie
2016
123
2
269
282
journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.155300
54648a18-198b-43ad-b766-f765f4711591
0035-418
155300
Geothlypis speciosa
Sclater, 1858
1858
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
26: 447.
Now
Geothlypis speciosa
Sclater, 1858
.
Two specimens were previously designated as types:
MHNG
755.094 (male), suggested as “cotype” by
Hellmayr (1942: 507)
, and
MHNG
755.096 (female), suggested as probable
paratype
by
Baud (1977: 219)
. However they cannot belong to the type series defined by Sclater, who referred to
three specimens
of the NHM obtained by exchange from the
MHNG
(“
an adult male, a young male and a female
”, Sclater, 1858: 447). The NHM still has two of these
syntypes
(the adult male and the female) (
Warren & Harrison, 1971: 521
).