Juan Cristobal Gundlach's collections of Puerto Rican birds with special regard to types
Author
Frahnert, Sylke
Author
Roman, Rafaela Aguilera
Author
Eckhoff, Pascal
Author
Wiley, James W.
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Zoosystematics and Evolution
2015
91
2
177
189
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.91.5550
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.91.5550
1860-0743-2-177
B4932E4E5C52427B977F83C42994BEB3
Taxon classification Animalia Psittaciformes Psittacidae
Conurus gundlachi Cabanis
Conurus gundlachi
Cabanis 1881a
: 5.
Now.
Psittacara chloropterus maugei
(
Souance
1856
: 59,
Cory 1889
: 180,
Salvadori 1891
: 189,
Ridgway 1916
: 155,
Peters 1937
: 188,
Wiley et al. 2014
: 257,
Olson 2015
).
Type series.
Cabanis mentioned in his description as well as in
Cabanis (1881b)
that he described the species based on two left wings, which means his description is based on two specimens.
Syntype (lost).
ZMB 2000.35468, wing, [collected by Dr. Claudio Federico Block on Isla de Mona, Portorico [Puerto Rico] before 1874].
Syntype (lost).
ZMB 2000/35469, wing, [collected by Dr. Claudio Federico Block on Isla de Mona, Portorico [Puerto Rico] before 1874].
Type locality.
Insel Mona near Portorico [today Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico].
Remarks.
Three wings of a parakeet from Isla de Mona were collected by Dr. Claudio Federico Block (or Bloch), a Danish physician and hunter from
Mayagueez
, who gave the wings to Gundlach probably in 1875. Two of the wings arrived in Berlin in October 1876 (B 14144). But they did not get inventory numbers and the whereabouts of the wings are unclear, so they are apparently lost. The whereabouts of the third wing is unknown, too (
Olson 2015
).