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
348
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journal article
0003-0090
Zosterops japonica insularis
Ogawa
Zosterops japonica insularis
Ogawa, 1905: 186
(Tanegashima)
.
Now
Zosterops japonicus insularis
Ogawa, 1905
. See
Mees, 1957: 108–112
,
Dickinson, 2003: 625
,
Morioka et al., 2005: 52
, and
van Balen, 2008: 445–446
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 699774
, adult male, collected at
Masuda
,
Tanegashima Island
,
30.35N
,
130.59E
(
Morioka et al., 2005: 153
),
Japan
, on
12 November 1904
, by collectors for
Alan Owston
(nos. 1330, 43).
From
the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description.
Hartert (1920: 436)
listed the specimen bearing the unique number 1330 as the type, thus designating it the
lectotype
, and
Mees (1957: 110)
confirmed Hartert’s designation.
Ogawa (1905: 188–189)
listed all of the specimens that he examined in the Owston collection, a total of 55; 40 of these came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and 39 are
paralectotypes
: Yakushima,
AMNH 699747–699766
; Tanegashima,
AMNH 699767–699773
and
699775–699786
.