Species profile
Montifringilla glacialis
Montifringilla glacialis
Quick answer
COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm did not list a type or indicate how many specimens he examined. Hartert (1918 a: 14), by listing the specimen collected on 12 January 1828 as the type, designated it the lectotype. There are two additional Brehm specimens in AMNH labeled glacialis by Brehm and collected before the 1831 description. I consider them paralectotypes: AMNH 456587, juvenile female, AMNH 456588, adult female, collected at Heiligen Blut, Tirol, on 4 July 1826.
- Scientific name
- Montifringilla glacialis
- Family
- Passeridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Montifringilla
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