Species profile
Poephila nigrotecta
Poephila nigrotecta
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COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description but gave measurements for at least two specimens. Later, Hartert (1919 a: 142) listed the male specimen bearing Meek’s no. 1821 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. There is one paralectotype, AMNH 721658, female, Cape York, 18 June 1898, A. S. Meek (no. 1824). Parker (1966: 121 – 122) investigated Meek’s collecting locality and found it to be the Chester River, 13.42 S, 143.33 E.
- Scientific name
- Poephila nigrotecta
- Family
- Estrildidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Poephila
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