Review article

Nomenclatural and taxonomic status of birds described by Mathias Piller and Ludwig Mitterpacher in their Iter per Poseganam Sclavoniae provinciam (1783)

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 Korođ, Croatia, where the type specimens were collected during 21–23 June 1782.

Keywords

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

Hrčak ID:

62804

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/62804

Publication date:

31.12.2010.

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