Corvus coronoides inoptatus Rensch, 1928 : 7

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 : 27

Corvus coronoides inoptatus Rensch, 1928: 7

TL: Rana Mesé , Flores [crater lake Rana Mesé, Ruteng Area, West-Flores, c. 8°33’S, 120°25’E] Now Corvus macrorhynchos macrorhynchos Wagler, 1827 . See Blake & Vaurie 1962: 275, Dickinson et al. 2004b: 124. HOLOTYPE: ZMB 30.1071. Adult male. Loc.: Rana Mesé, W. - Flores. Date: 30 June 1927. Coll. Rensch, Sunda-Expedition 1927, No. 921. [S, Rensch label, Meise MS].

PARATYPE: ZMB 30.1070. Adult male. Loc.: Rana Mesé, W. - Flores. Date: 23 June 1927. Coll. Rensch, Sunda-Expedition 1927, No. 798. Iris: brown. Bill: black. Feet: black. [S, Rensch label].

COMMENTS: Rensch (1928) referred in the original description to three male and two female specimens from Rana Mesé and one male from Sumbawa Besar, of which two specimens were donated to the ZMB. Two female paratypes are found at the SMF, numbered 73542 and 73543 (G. Mayr in litt. February 2009), the third male paratype from Flores and the specimen from Sumbawa Besar are not accounted for. Rensch designated ZMB 30.1071 as the holotype. Bernhard Rensch (1900–1990) led an expedition to the Sunda-Islands in 1927. See Dickinson et al. (2004a: 96–102) for a detailed discussion of this species-group.