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Names lacking in the Key (1 Viewer)

Laurent's post # 49 in thread "diagnosis not seen" for genus names in the Key A through S (here) also gave us a completely new name!

In the "new" subspecies "Gouldæornis gouldiæ westra subsp. nov." ... as westra in not found in today's HBW Alive Key. Well done!

As I understand it, a synonym of today's monotypic Gouldian Finch (Amadina/Poephila/Erythrura) Chloebia gouldiae GOULD 1844.

What westra means? I have nothing but an idea ...

Syntypes in AMNH (2013), see pp. 113-114, here.

From West? In Mathews's usual, somewhat unorthodox manner of coining scientific names? All the types originated from the Napier Broome Bay area, in Western Australia. All collected by G. F. Hill ...

Another one in the long line of names similar to: westralasiana / westralensis / westraliensis / westralis ...?

In 1948 its Range was:
"Northern Australia. In Western Australia only in the Kimberley Division"

[here]
Just a thought. Who knows?

Björn

PS. It might be wort having a look at that Journal, in full, after all ... ;)
 
Here´s an addition to the list of birds commemorating Solander ...

• "Macronectes giganteus solanderi" MATHEWS 1912, here [syn. monotypic Macronectes giganteus GMELIN 1789]
 
PS. It might be wort having a look at that Journal, in full, after all ... ;)
I won't post a full pdf here, as it is my understanding that the work (published 1923) is still under copyright. The new species-group names introduced in this paper are:
  • Samuela cinnamomea todmordeni – “Type, Todmorden, Central Australia.”
  • Calamanthus fuliginosus obscurior – […] “much darker” [...]
  • Magnamytis kimberleyi – “Type, Kimberley, North-west Australia.”
  • Colluricincla rufiventris carteri – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Cracticus nigrogularis coongani – “Type, Coongan River, Mid-west Australia.”
  • Aphelooephala pectoralis todmordeni – “Type, Todmorden, Central Australia.”
  • Neositta albata ramsayi – “Differs from N. a. albata (Ramsay) in” [etc.]
  • Cormobates minor northi – no obvious link to AJ North in OD (but “Type, Barron River, North Queensland.”)
  • Zosterops australasiae edwini – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Zosterops lutea headlandi – “Type, Point Headland, North Mid-west Australia.”
  • Pardalotinus melanocephalus pilbarra – “Type, Pilbarra Gold Fields, Mid-west Australia.”
  • Nesopardalotus quadragintus rex – “Type, King Island, Bass Straits.”
  • Melithreptus laetior northi – no obvious link to AJ North in OD (but “Type, Western Northern Territory.”)
  • Lichmera indistincta yorki – “Type, York, West Australia.”
  • Lichmera indistincta perthi – “Type, Perth, West Australia.”
  • Lichmera indistincta milligani – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Sacramela keartlandi cloatesensis – “Type, Point Cloates, Mid-west Australia.”
  • Ptilotula penicillata centralia – “Type, Central Australia.”
  • Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera mixta – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Meliornis novaehollandiae queenslandicus – “Type, Queensland.”
  • Meliornis novaehollandiae campbelli – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Meliornis novaehollandiae intermedius – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Coleia carunculata clelandi – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Coleia carunculata perthi – “Type, Perth, West Australia.”
  • Anthochaera chrysoptera albani – “Type, Albany, South-west Australia.”
  • Acanthagenys rufogularis augusta – “Type, Port Augusta, South Australia.”
  • Neophilemon orientalis confusus – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Austranthus australis flindersi – “Type, Flinders Island, Bass Straits.”
  • Zonaeginthus bellus flindersi – “Type, Flinders Island, Bass Straits.”
  • Zonaeginthus bellus tasmanicus – Type, Tasmania.”
  • Zonaeginthus bellus rosinae – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Zonaeginthus boculatus gaimardi – “Differs from Z. o. oculatus (Q. and G.) ” [etc.]
  • Donacola castaneothorax northi – no obvious link to AJ North in OD (but “Type, North Queensland.”)
  • Aegintha temporalis ashbyi – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Gouldaeornis gouldiae westra – “Type, Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia.”
  • Neopoephila personata hilli – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Ptiloris paradisea queenslandica – “Type, Blackall Ranges, South Queensland.”
  • Corvus cecilae problëema – no obvious clue in OD.
  • Struthidea cimerea dalyi – “Type, Daly Waters, Northern Territory”.
(...With westra in mind, and given Mathews' habit to form names by adding a genitive -i ending to English-language toponyms, I feel obliged to note that the three taxa named northi in this list all have a stated type locality in northern Australia. Hopefully just a coincidence...? ;) [OTOH, on p.43 of the same paper, Mathews conceded that his Acanthiza pusilla northi Mathews 1922 [OD], explicitly dedicated to AJ North, was a junior synonym of A. p. leeuwinensis Campbell 1922: this may conceivably have prompted him to propose other names honouring North. There might also be other untold reasons for this, of course.])
 
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Thanks Laurent for all this work. Mathews did not make it easy.
Colluricincla rufiventris carteri – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Thomas Carter (1863-1931) English ornithologist, collector, pastoralist, explorer in Australia 1886-1921… syn. Colluricincla harmonica rufiventris
Zosterops australasiae edwini – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Edwin Ashby (1861-1941) English conchologist, ornithologist, settled in Australia, founder member of RAOU (syn. Zosterops lateralis chloronotus).
Aegintha temporalis ashbyi – no obvious clue in OD. Key Edwin Ashby again, syn. Aegintha temporalis

Lichmera indistincta milligani – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Alexander William Milligan (1858-1921) Australian ornithologist, founder member of the RAOU. syn. Lichmera indistincta.
Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera mixta – no obvious clue in OD. Key: L. mixtus mixed, mingled < miscere to mix.
Meliornis novaehollandiae campbelli – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Archibald James Campbell (1853-1929) Australian ornithologist, collector . subsp. Phylidonyris novaehollandiae(ex Meliornis novaehollandiae halmaturina Campbell, 1906)
Meliornis novaehollandiae intermedius – no obvious clue in OD. Key: L. intermedius intermediate, that is between.
Coleia carunculata clelandi – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Prof. Sir John Burton Cleland (1878-1971) Australian pathologist, mycologist, ornithologist. subsp. Anthochaera carunculata .
Neophilemon orientalis confusus – no obvious clue in OD. From Type Specimens of the AMNH Part 9 LeCroy 2011. Mathews (1912a: 422) had originally considered the northeast Queensland Philemon to be Philemon buceroides (Swainson), restricting Swainson’s type locality to Cairns when he (Mathews, 1912d: 102) named the Cape York population P. b. yorki. The generic name Neophilemon was introduced by Mathews (1912e: 117) with Philemon buceroides as the type species. Immediately thereafter, he (Mathews, 1912e: 117) introduced the generic name Microphilemon with Buphaga orientalis Latham (5 Tropidorhynchus citreogularis Gould) as the type species. When Hellmayr (1916: 101–102) found that Swainson’s type of P. buceroides was from Timor, not Australia, he accepted Mathews’ name yorki for the Australian form, accorded it full species status, and considered Mathews’ name gordoni a subspecies of P. yorki. The Australasian Ornithologists’ Union Check List Committee having pointed out to Mathews that Latham’s and Gould’s names were not synonyms, Mathews (1923b: 39) then used Neophilemon orientalis (Latham) as the species name for the northern Australian populations of P. buceroides, restricting the type locality of nominate Neophilemon orientalis to Cooktown. Thus, this left the Cairns population, formerly bearing Swainson’s name, to be accounted for; Mathews’ (1923b: 39) solution was to immediately name Neophilemon orientalis confusus from Cairns.I think the bird name history is confusing.
Zonaeginthus bellus rosinae – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Ethel Rosina White (1876-1926) wife of Australian ornithologist Capt. Samuel White. syn. Stagonopleura bella samueli.
Neopoephila personata hilli – no obvious clue in OD. Key: Gerald Freer Hill (1880-1954) Australian entomologist, explorer, collector (syn. Poephila personata) Type Species of AMNH “Mathews (1926: 253) quoted both Hill and Barnard as having observed these birds at Borroloola”
Corvus cecilae problëema – no obvious clue in OD. Key: probleema / problema
Gr. προβλημα problēma, προβληματος problēmatos puzzle, enigma < προβαλλω proballō to put forward.
Some of the names are obvious like Tom Carter collected carteri others less clear.
 
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Linnaeus's two Hummingbirds ... and "his" Hawk!

Even if the Etymology itself is beyond any doubt, here´s three invalid scientific names, not listed in today's HBW Alive Key ...

linnaei as in:
● "[Thaumantias] linnæi" BONAPARTE 1854 (here, No.58/245) [New name for "Trochilus thaumantias" LINNAEUS 1766 = today's subspecies Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias LINNAEUS 1766]
... not listed among the other linnaei birds in the Key, but mentioned in connection to the Generic name Thaumatias (alt. Thaumantias) ;) ... at least the one by Bonaparte (not Gould's, below)

● "Thaumatias Linnæi" GOULD 1861 [alt. BONAPARTE, 1854 sensu GOULD, 1861] (here, with Plate on the preceding page) [syn. Amazilia fimbriata GMELIN 1788]

Both the above mentioned Hummingbirds were earlier discussed here on the Bird Name Etymology sub-forum (back in November 2014), in the thread Questions of three "Linnaean" Synonyms … (here).

That's more than three years ago, and I´m still not all (not 100%) convinced that I understood (and understand) the synonyms properly? Anyone who can deny or confirm them as identified belonging to either one of today's taxa (as above)? The fact that James seems to hesitate in adding the two Hummingbirds to the Key contributes strongly to my feeling of uncertainty ...

Either way: here´s also a third, earlier all un-noted (or simply missed):
● "F. [Falco] linnæi" RIDGWAY 1876 (ex Cassin, MS, here, in Foot-note) [= female specimen of Chilean Hawk (Nisus) Accipiter chilensis PHILIPPI & LANDBECK 1864]

Enjoy!

Björn

PS. And; of course, they are all commemorating The Great Linnaeus himself; Carl Linnæus (1707-1778), who was raised to nobility in 1757*, thereafter known as Carl von Linné (a k a, in Latin; pre-nobility; Carolus Linnaeus alt., in genitive case, Caroli Linnæi versus post-nobility; Carolus a Linné).

Born "13 may 1707" (Old style = 23 May 1707, in today's Calendar), Son of Nils (Ingemarsson) Linnæus and his wife Christina. Carl grew up in Stenbrohult, Småland, Sweden, and so on ... it´s a well-known story.

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*approved/ratified by the Swedish Parliament, in 1762.
 
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Thanks, Björn. Altho' only Gould's name is validly created (I showed it as Polyerata fimbriata (under which it was listed in HBW 5, p. 601; but the Illustrated Checklist I, pp. 296-301, has lumped all those old genera under Amazilia)), for the sake of completeness, I have added the other two names to the Key.
 
You´re welcome, James ... but, maybe I´m stupid, ... I simply cannot get my head around those Hummingbirds ... and believe me; I´ve tried.

If "only Gould's name is validly created" (like you replied), why isn´t it listed in the Key [as (in my view, this far) a synonym of (Polyerata) Amazilia fimbriata]?

Today's updated HBW Alive Key tells us:
linnaei / linnaeii
Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish botanist, naturalist, physician, father of binomial nomenclature (syn. Accipiter bicolor chilensis, syn. Eclectus roratus, syn. Icterus nigrogularis, syn. Phalacrocorax aristotelis, syn. Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias, subsp. Turdus grayi (...
If anyone would look for an explanation of what bird Gould was writing about, and depicted, as "Linnæi" it would be very easy (following today's Key, above) to belive it´s a synonym of the Goldenthroat Polytmus subspecies.

I would certainly (if only a bit less doubtful/sceptical/suspicious ;)) have been led astray, and belived such was/is the case ...

And James, where did you "showed it as Polyerata fimbriata"? Was that in the HBW Alive Key? Or in any of your printed books? I´ve been checking the Key repeatedly for linnaei (now and then, since 2014, when we dealt with those names last time), most recently last Tuesday, this far without any sign of it, as a synonym of fimbriata.

And; even if fimbriata was moved from Polyerata into Amazilia what disqualifies the identity of Gould's "Linnæi" from the Key?

What am I missing?

Please enlighten me!

Björn
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Compare Gould's Plate (here) with for example the photos of the Glittering-throated Emerald (Polyerata) Amazilia fimbriata; here, here, here ... or elsewhere, versus photos of the subspecies Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias here.

In my mind there´s little doubt that Gould's plate does depict the former species.
 
In my view only Bonaparte's name was validly created.

Thaumatias linnaei Bonaparte 1854 [OD] is indeed a substitute for the available species group name thaumantias Linnaeus 1766 [OD], obviously introduced for the sole purpose of avoiding tautonymy when the species was placed in Bonaparte's genus Thaumatias [OD], here spelled 'Thaumantias' (*), as was frequently done back then. Bonaparte also cited fig. 1 of Pl. enl. 600 -- not published in 1766, hence of course not part of the original type series of Tr. thaumantias L.; added to its synonymy by Gmelin 1788, and cited again repeatedly, including by Gray 1840 when he designated [and misspelled] "Polytmus thaumatias (L.)" as the type of Polytmus Brisson (**). The citation of this plate does not affect the type series of the replacement name, which remains that of the replaced name (ICZN Art. 72.7).

The only thing that Gould did, was to explicitly apply Bonaparte's name:
I agree with M. Bourcier and Prince Charles L. Bonaparte, that it will be advantageous to give the present bird another appellation, and I have therefore adopted that of Linnaei, proposed for it by the Prince, in honour of the great Swedish naturalist.
With this, Gould could only have created a new name if Bonaparte had not validly created it before him, which he had.

Gould presumably adopted Bonaparte's name for what he believed to be the taxonomic species which Bonaparte called "Tr. thaumantias L. 1766" in the OD, which is not quite clear, at least to me. It appears, from Bonaparte's Conspectus generum avium [here], that in 1850 the Prince regarded "Trochilus thaumatias L." as a senior synonym of Ornismya albiventris Lesson [OD] (itself now regarded as a junior synonym of Trochilus fimbriatus Gmelin). However, in the 1854 work where he introduced Thaumatias linnaei, Bonaparte used albiventris Lesson as valid for another species, thus he had presumably changed his mind on this issue. In 1861, Gould used albiventris as valid for an other species too; he treated Thaumatias linnaei Bonaparte as a synonym of O. viridissima Lesson 1829 [OD], which he regarded as preoccupied by Trochilus viridissimus Gmelin 1788, and which Bonaparte 1854 did not cite. Which taxonomic species Bonaparte applied his replacement name to (what Thaumatias linnaei "Bonaparte 1854 sensu Bonaparte 1854" may have been) does not affect the type series of this name either (ICZN Art. 72.7, again).
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(*) An incorrect subsequent spelling here, in my reading. I know the opposite (i.e., Thaumatias being an incorrect OS) was again recently argued for, but it does not seem possible to prove an inadvertent error using exclusively internal information from the OD (which spelling was used in Linnaeus 1766 is external information, and cannot be used), thus in my view the OS cannot be deemed incorrect under ICZN Art.32.5, and any correction would be unjustified. Additionally, the modification of spelling is not demonstrably intentional here, thus I would not even regard it as an emendation. (The modified spelling is presumably available as an unjustified emendation from some later work, though.)
(**) Gray's misspelling being presumably the source of the spelling that Bonaparte used for his genus, as well as its type species. Bonaparte unquestionably used Gray as a source, as he referred to his work in the OD ("Polytmus, p. Br. Gr." = Polytmus as per Brisson and Gray).
 
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Thanks Laurent, for the great deal of effort, putting this complex matter in writing ... now, hopefully, everyone can see/read exactly why I had, and still have, such a hard time getting "my head around those Hummingbirds". It´s a tricky case, a delicate operation ...

However I still cannot understand why James consider Gould's name the only one "validly created" and (if so) why Bonaparte's "linnaei" (syn. Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias) is included in today's Key contra/versus Gould's "species", which isn´t.

Nor do I feel all safe (beyond any doubt) claiming that "Linnæi" BONAPARTE, 1854 sensu GOULD, 1861 is a synonym of today's (Polyerata) Amazilia fimbriata GMELIN 1788 (and of nothing else, not even in parts).

But I do think so (judging from the Plate) ... !?

Looking forward to a reply from James, but I assume he´s celebrating Easter.

We´ll see ... when the Easter eggs are all empty.

Björn
 
No wonder I couldn´t find the second linnaei Hummingbird, the synonym for Glittering-throated Emerald (Polyerata) Amazilia fimbriata (Gmelin, JF, 1788), in the HBW Alive Key ...

For some reason (unknown, to me) James have put it in the Key entry for:
linnei
Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish botanist, naturalist, physician, father of binomial nomenclature (Species Plantarum 1753; Systema Naturae 1758) (syn. Amazilia fimbriata) ...
Where this spelling originates from (ending in -ei, not -aei nor -æi) is unknown to me.

Anyone who does know?
 
Thaumatias Linnei vs Linnaei

The only version of "Thaumatias Linnei" (that I have found) was used by Eudes-Deslongchamps, here (in 1880) where we find it (and Le Thaumatias de Linné), in a list of synonyms for "THAUMATIAS TOBACI (Gmelin) Sp. 1788" [today's Copper-rumped Hummingbird (Saucerottia) Amazilia tobaci (Gmelin, JF, 1788)!], which I assume is a typo (alt. simply an incorrect subsequent spelling) and an erroneous identification (!), as it (as I understand it) refers back to Mulsant's (and Édouard Verreaux's) "THAUMATIAS LINNAEI, GOULD ", of 1774, here (a k a Le Thaumatias de Linné).

Again mentioned, but only with yet another added synonym, in vol 4 (1877); there only adding "Thaumatias Linnaei, PELZELN" (1869), to the list of synonyms (for Thaumantias Linnaei, Gould), here.

This said (as usual) without understand just about nothing of the French texts. ;)

Björn
 
Thanks Mark, note that von Pelzeln's question mark wasn´t cited by Eudes-Deslongchamps.

To this we might add (for the sake of completeness); "Thaumantias linnei", cited by Boucard in his Genera of humming birds [: being also a complete monograph of these birds*] (here), from 1894-1895, listed as a synonym for "Polytmus thaumantias" [today's Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias], but note that Boucard there refer this spelling to "Bon. Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1854, p. 255" (here)... where this name (as we´ve already, repeatedly, have verified) was written "linnæi" (ending in ligature + i = -æi).

That´s all the "linnei" Hummingbirds I can find. Two incorrect subsequent spellings, that´s all. For two different taxa (today). Both originally coined as Linnæi/linnæi ...

Thereby the question still stands (regardless of either one "validly created", or not): Why did Gould's "Linnæi", of 1861 [a synonym of (P.) A. fimbriata], end up in today's HBW Alive Key entry for linnei ...?

linnaei / linnaeii
Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish botanist, naturalist, physician, father of binomial nomenclature (syn. Accipiter bicolor chilensis, syn. Eclectus roratus, syn. Icterus nigrogularis, syn. Phalacrocorax aristotelis, syn. Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias, subsp. Turdus grayi ...
[...]
(see linnei).
linnei
Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish botanist, naturalist, physician, father of binomial nomenclature (Species Plantarum 1753; Systema Naturae 1758) (syn. Amazilia fimbriata) ...
[...]
(see linnaei).
Why?

Björn
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*The whole book itself is "Dedicated to the Memory of Linné, The Father of Systematical Classification, and Binomial Nomenclature."
 
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Today's updated HBW Alive Key:
linnaei / linnaeii
Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish botanist, naturalist, physician, father of binomial nomenclature (syn. Accipiter bicolor chilensis, syn. Amazilia fimbriata, syn. Eclectus roratus, syn. Icterus nigrogularis, syn. Phalacrocorax aristotelis, syn. Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias, subsp. Turdus grayi (“In naming this distinctive race, I am mindful of the extraordinary ignorance of some of our highest-placed biologists today of our enormous debt to the great Carl von Linné, and of how few birds commemorate this debt” (Phillips 1966))) (see linnei).
Congruence. No more hopeless searches (in vain) for any odd, possibly missed, linnei hummingbird.

Case closed. Peace and serenity rule. :t:

Thank's James!
 
Sephanoides sephaniodes mariannae

here p. 243 it looks like a new mariannae

I haven't seen OD but it must be....

Adolf Kleinschmidt. (1970): Wesen und Bedeutung von Variations-Studien, im besonderen in den Arbeiten von Otto Kleinschmidt, für die Klärung genealogischer Zusammenhänge. - Zoologische Abhandlungen. Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden. 31 (13): 23 1 - 262 + 1 Tf

If I see here it is written:

Am 3. Januar 1938 wurde ich, Georg Otto Walter Kleinschmidt, als Sohn des Zoologen Dr. sc. nat. Adolf Kleinschmidt und seiner Ehefrau Dr. med. Marianne geb. Claus in Berlin geboren.


P.S.: Adolf Kleinschmidt was a son of Otto Kleinschmidt. More about his life in here. In there we can find:

Schon 1936 hatte sich Adolf Kleinschmidt mit der Medizinerin Dr. Marianne Claus verheiratet. Drei Kinder, eine Tochter (geb. 1940) und zwei Söhne (geb. 1938 und 1948) wurden in den nun folgenden Jahren geboren.
 
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The OD of this "subspecies" is also unseen by me, however listed here as:
Sephanoides sephanoides mariannae A. Kleinschmidt, 1970
Kleinschmidt, A. Wesen und Bedeutung von Variations-Studien, im besonderen in den Arbeiten von Otto Kleinschmidt, für die Klärung genealogischer Zusammenhänge. Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierk. Dresden, 31: 231-262. See p. 243 and color plate
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If of any help?
 
The OD of this "subspecies" is also unseen by me, however listed here as:
If of any help?

It is the same quote as my first quote. But I forgot to mention in english what the other quotes tell us.

Marianne Kleinschmidt né Claus wife of Adolf Kleinschmidt (son of Otto Kleinschmidt).

Did not find her life dates yet apart from 1936 as year of marriage. But maybe more in Adolf Kleinschmidt biography in Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, vol 156, 2000, p. 309 f..
 
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