Myzomela eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert

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 : 68

publication ID	0003-0090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5475807
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AC87E2-FFFF-FF89-FD5B-FF543A21FC25
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scientific name	Myzomela eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert
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Myzomela eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert View in CoL

Myzomela eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert, 1901b: 181 (Kulambangra) View in CoL .

Now Myzomela eichhorni eichhorni Rothschild and Hartert, 1901 View in CoL . See Mayr and Diamond, 2001: 398, and Higgins et al., 2008: 651–652.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 692976 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Kolombangara ( 5 Kulambangra) Island, 08.00S, 157.10E (Times Atlas), Solomon Islands, on 26 February 1901, by one of the Eichhorn brothers for Albert S. Meek (no. 2799). From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description but five adult males and one female were collected. Rothschild and Hartert (1903a: 220) listed Meek no. 2799 as the type of eichhorni , thereby designating it the lectotype. Paralectotypes are: males, AMNH 692977 About AMNH (Meek no. 2801), AMNH 692978 About AMNH (2773), AMNH 692979 About AMNH (2786), AMNH 692980 About AMNH (2772) ; female, AMNH 692981 About AMNH (2787) .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Meliphagidae
Genus	Myzomela