Vanellus grisescens Prazak ...

• Main Author: Mlíkovský, Jiří
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Charadriiformes; Charadriidae; Vanellus; Vanellus grisescens; Vanellus vanellus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6184181; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6184181

Vanellus grisescens Pražák Vanellus grisescens Pražák, 1896a: 23. Remarks. Pražák (1896a: 23) said that he based this species on the holotype deposited in JJPH (no accession or inventory number given), which was collected by Mr. Richard Materna on an unspecified date in “Nord Chili ” (“northern Chile ”). There is no evidence that Pražák received this specimen from Richard Materna (who existed probably only in Pražák’s mind) or from anybody else, and there is no evidence that the holotype of V. g r i s e s c e n s Pražák existed. I thus consider Vanellus grisescens Pražák a hypothetical form, whose name has no standing in zoological nomenclature (Art. 1.3.1 of the Code). In inventing this species, Pražák (1896a) might have been inspired by the description of Vanellus occidentalis Harting (1874: 450), which he cited. Grant (1911: 274) accepted Vanellus grisescens as valid with Pražák as its author, provided a diagnosis for the form, and listed specimens he included in the species. Pražák’s (1896a) Vanellus ... : Published as part of Mlíkovský, Jiří, 2011, Nomenclatural and taxonomic status of bird taxa (Aves) described by an ornithological swindler, Josef Prokop Pražák (1870 – 1904), pp. 45-68 in Zootaxa 3005 on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202788 ...