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 meeki
Hartert
Zosterops meeki
Hartert, 1898a: 528
(Sudest)
. Now
Zosterops meeki
Hartert, 1898
. See
Mees,
1961a: 91, and
van Balen, 2008: 457
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 700582
, adult male, collected on Tacuta (
5
Sudest or Tagula)
Island
,
11.20S
,
153.10E
(
PNG
, 1984), Louisiade Archipelago,
Milne Bay Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
18 April 1898
, by Albert S. Meek (no. 1753). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, saying only that he had a male and a female specimen. Later,
Rothschild and Hartert (1903c: 452)
listed the type as the male with Meek’s field number ‘‘1753,’’ thereby designating the above specimen the
lectotype
. The
paralectotype
is
AMNH 700586
(Meek no. 1754) collected on the same day.