Drymoica procerula Sundevall 1850
- Dataset
- Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Sundevall, C. J. (1850) Foglar fran sodra Afrika. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-akademiens forhandlingar, 7 (4), 96 - 111.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Sylviidae
- genus
- Drymoica
- species
- Drymoica procerula
description
CURRENT STATUS: Synonym of Cisticola galactotes galactotes (Temminck, 1823); Cisticolidae (Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 457).
discussion
COMMENTS: There is no journal entry for this day. Wahlberg was in Durban from late March to early October 1840.
materials_examined
TYPE MATERIAL: There is no indication in Sundevall’s original description (1850: 104) that he had more than a single specimen at hand, and there is only a single specimen in Sundevall’s manuscript acquisition catalogue. The description is based on a single holotype: NRM 568774 [6755] (cf. also Gyldenstolpe 1926: 42), a study skin of a juvenile male collected 25 May 1840 in Durban. VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
Name
- Homonyms
- Drymoica procerula Sundevall 1850