Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae
Author
Mary
Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-04-29
2011
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journal article
0003-0090
Zosterops floridana
Rothschild and Hartert
Zosterops floridana
Rothschild and Hartert, 1901b: 180
(
Florida
Island).
Now
Zosterops metcalfii floridanus
Rothschild and Hartert, 1901
. See
Mees, 1961a: 156–157
,
Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 396
, and
van Balen, 2008: 461
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 700653
, adult male, collected on
Nggela Sule
(
5
Florida) Island,
09.05S
,
160.15E
(
USBGN
, 1974b),
Solomon Islands
, on
28 December 1900
, by
Albert Eichhorn
for
Albert S. Meek
(no. 2704).
From
the
Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description nor was the number of specimens examined given, although measurements were published for more than one of each sex.
Hartert (1920: 436)
listed the type as specimen no. 2704, thus designating it the
lectotype
.
Paralectotypes
in
AMNH
, all collected on Nggela Sula, are:
AMNH 700654
(Meek no. 2706), male,
28 December 1900
;
AMNH 700655
(2719), male,
31 December 1900
;
AMNH 700656
(2715), male,
29 December 1900
;
AMNH 700657
(2737), male,
22 January 1901
;
AMNH 700660
(2705), female,
28 December 1900
.