Ara martinicus vs Ara martinica (1 Viewer)

Melanie

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• Jan 20, 2015

• #1

Why are most sources using Ara martinica despite the fact that Ara is masculine. And why it was changed to martinica after Rothschild (1907) proposed the epithet martinicus?

The same is with Ara erythrura / erythrurus.

 

mb1848

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• Jan 20, 2015

• #2

It might be from the fact Rothschild described it in Anadorhynchus. Then Salvadori put it in Ara? In a 1906 Ibis.???

 

Fred Ruhe

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• Jan 20, 2015

• #3

Rothschild describes Anadorhynchus martinicus in 1905 in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 16: 13-15 on page 14. In 1907 in Extinct Birds he names it Ara martinicus. I cannot tell who made it Ara martinica.

Enjoy,

Fred Ruhe

 

mb1848

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• Jan 20, 2015

• #4

Thanks Fred. Salvadori questioned its placement in Andorhynchus but did not put it in Ara.
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/86740#page/388/mode/1up .
Rothschild published two OD's in 1905.
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100946#page/38/mode/1up .
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/106225#page/218/mode/1up .
Here is where he put it in Ara:
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/119044#page/87/mode/1up .
I also do not know who changed it to martinica?
The earliest I can find is from the 1916 Birds of North and Middle America, Ridgway & Friedmann. James Bond used it also in 1936.

 

Last edited: Jan 20, 2015

Fred Ruhe

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• Jan 20, 2015

• #5

mb1848, this is the link you need for the original description of Anadorhynchus martinicus (pg. 14) and there you can see why he described the species here:


http://ia902608.us.archive.org/12/items/bulletinofb1620190507brit/bulletinofb1620190507brit.pdf

The links mb1848 are for the Ibis, 1905, the international ornithological congres 1902 where Rothschild mentions his new species and his Extinct Birds from 1907 where he cheges the name to Ara martinicus(Rothschild, 1905).

 

Melanie

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• Jan 20, 2015

• #6

Interesting that the change from Anadorhynchus to Ara was not recognized by Peters (1937). He still listed it as

Anadorhynchus [sic] martinicus

Check-list of the Birds of the World vol. 3, p. 185 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50577#page/203/mode/1up