Nomenklaturalni i taksonomski status ptica opisanih u Iter per Poseganam Sclavoniae provinciam (1783) Mathiasa Pillera i Ludwiga Mitterpachera

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• Jiří Mlíkovský Department of Zoology, National Museum, Václavské námestí 68, CZ-115 79 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Abstract

In 1783 Mathias Piller (1733–1788) and Ludwig Mitterpacher (1734–1814) described six species of birds from the Osijek region in today’s north-eastern Croatia as being new for science. A revision of the nomenclatural and taxonomic status of these nominal species revealed that five of them are junior subjective synonyms. They include Ardea obscura (= Nycticorax nycticorax), Charadrius illyricus (= Burhinus oedicnemus), Falco cinereus (= Circus macrourus), Falco rubiginosus (= Circus aeruginosus), and Rallus dubius (= Gallinula chloropus). The sixth form (Falco marginatus) is sometimes recognized as a valid subspecies of Accipiter gentilis, but its taxonomic identity within the latter species is uncertain. The type locality of all of these species is restricted herein to Koro|, Croatia, where the type specimens were collected during 21–23 June 1782.

Keywords

Mathias Piller, Ludwig Mitterpacher, Aves, taxonomy, nomenclature, Croatia, 18th century

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