Larus novaehollandiae gunni

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Subject:	Larus novaehollandiae gunni
From:	"John Penhallurick" <>
Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:38:29 +1100

Sorry to bother you all again, but I have just noticed something.

Mathews,1927,Systema Avium Australasianarum,1,p.147 list the form in Tasmania as

Bruchigavia novaehollandiae jamesonii

based on

Larus jamesonii Wilson,1829,Wilson,James,1831,Illustrations of Zoology, being representations of new, rare, or remarkable subjects of the animal kingdom : with ... descriptive details,pt.6,pl.xxiii."Shores of New Holland" = Tasmania.

Mathews list his own gunni (Larus novaehollandiae gunni Mathews,1912,Novitates Zoologicae,18,p.212.(Tasmania). ) in the synonymy.

So if the Tasmanian form is recognised as a good subspecies, should it be called jamesonii?

John

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