Species profile
Pyrgita minor
Pyrgita minor
Quick answer
COMMENTS: In the original description, Brehm said that he had specimens from Egypt and Buchara and described male and female. By listing the male that is now AMNH 456506 as the type, Hartert (1918 a: 15) designated it the lectotype. Only one additional specimen collected before 1842 was cataloged as minor at AMNH, paralectotype AMNH 456507, an undated female, winter (‘‘ hieme, ’’ as on label), sent from Egypt by W. F. Hemprich (= ex Aegypto missus ab Hemprich, ’’ as on label).
- Scientific name
- Pyrgita minor
- Family
- Passeridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Pyrgita
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