Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus Rand, 1941

Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348), pp. 1-193 : 45-46

publication ID

0003-0090

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475747

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E2-FF96-FFE3-FD2D-F905388CFAF0

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Tatiana

scientific name

Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus Rand
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Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus Rand View in CoL

Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus Rand, 1941: 13 View in CoL (15 kilometers southwest of Bernhard Camp, Idenburg River, Netherland [sic] New Guinea, altitude 1500 meters).

Now Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus Rand, 1941 View in CoL . See Dickinson, 2003: 452, and Gregory, 2008: 338.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305909 About AMNH , adult male, collected 15 km southwest of Bernhard Camp , 1500 m, ca 03.30S, 139.15E ( Archbold et al., 1942, map 1), Taritatu (5 Idenburg ) River , Papua Province (5 Netherlands New Guinea), Indonesia, on 29 January 1939, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as the north slopes of the Snow Mountains , between 1200 and 1500 m, west to the Weyland Mountains , between 1200 and 1700 m. Paratypes in AMNH are: Mount Kunupi, Weyland Mountains, AMNH 302484 About AMNH , adult female, AMNH 302485 About AMNH , adult female [immature male?], both 9 September 1931 ; 6–15 km sw Bernhard Camp , AMNH 342600 About AMNH , adult male, 2 February 1939, AMNH 342601 About AMNH , male?, 23 February 1939, AMNH 342602 About AMNH , adult female, 27 February 1939, AMNH 342603 About AMNH , adult female, 4 March 1939. Of these, AMNH 342603 About AMNH was sent to MZB .

For a complete account of the birds collected on this expedition, see Rand (1942b), and for a summary of the expedition, see Archbold et al. (1942). This Third Archbold Expedition was a joint expedition with Netherlands Indies authorities and was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. The genus Toxorhamphus is now included in the Melanocharitidae .

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

MZB

Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Melanocharitidae

Genus

Toxorhamphus

Loc

Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus Rand

Mary 2011
2011
Loc

Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus

Gregory, P. A. 2008: 338
Dickinson, E. C. 2003: 452
2003
Loc

Toxorhamphus poliopterus maximus

Rand, A. L. 1941: 13
1941
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