Corvus corax islandicus Hantzsch, 1906 : 130

Steinheimer, Frank D., 2009, The type specimens of Corvidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, with the description of a new subspecies of Dendrocitta vagabunda, Zootaxa 2149 (1), pp. 1-49 : 32

Corvus corax islandicus Hantzsch, 1906: 130

TL: Island [ Iceland].

Now Corvus corax varius Brünnich, 1764 . See Hartert & Steinbacher 1932: 3, Vaurie 1959: 175, Blake & Vaurie 1962: 279, Dickinson 2003: 514, Eck & Quaisser 2004: 286.

PARALECTOTYPES (designation by Meise 1929: 3): ZMB 2002.540 [new registration, acquisition number B.374]. Male. Loc.: Saudárkrókur , northern Iceland [19°39’W, 65°45’N]. Date: 9 March 1906. Ex.Coll.: Hantzsch. [S, Mus]. ZMB 2002.541 [new registration, acquisition number B.374]. Male. Loc.: Saudárkrókur, North-Iceland. Date: 24 January 1906. Ex.Coll.: Hantzsch. [S, Mus]. ZMB 2002.542 [new registration, acquisition number B.374]. Female. Loc.: Saudárkrókur, North-Iceland. Date: 20 October 1905. Ex.Coll.: Hantzsch. [S, Mus].

COMMENTS: Of the 25 specimens referred to by Hantzsch (1906) in the original description, three were bought for the ZMB on 10 October 1906. Eleven paralectotypes C19578-79, C21666-72, C21674-75 were later sold to the SMTD ( Eck & Quaisser 2004: 286, Quaisser & Eck 2006: 134). Meise’s lectotype C21673 was lost during WWII. It was also housed in the SMTD.