Species Acanthagenys rufogularis Gould, 1838

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthagenys rufogularis Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [Pt 3, published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] [Pt 4, pl. 69].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 18450 ♂, New South Wales.
  Paralectotype(s) LFM D.5393 unsexed, New South Wales.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Wagstaffe, R. 1978. Type Specimens of Birds in the Merseyside County Museums. Liverpool : Merseyside County Museums, Merseyside County Council 33 pp. [23] (one other specimen in the BM(NH) and five in ANSP).
• Anthochaera rodorhyncha Cotton, J. 1848. List of birds which frequent the upper portion of the River Goulburn in the district of Port Phillip, New South Wales. Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science 3(5): 361-365 [Date published Jul 1848] [362].
• Acanthogenys flavacanthus Campbell, A.J. 1899. Descriptions of three new Australian birds. Victorian Naturalist 16(1): 3-4 [Date published May 1899] [3].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV HLW.712 ♂, WA: Point Cloates.
• Acanthagenys rufogularis cygnus Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [420].
• Acanthagenys rufogularis wei Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [421].
• Acanthagenys rufogularis territori Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [420] [senior to simultaneously published Acanthagenys rufogularis queenslandicus Mathews, 1912 by action of first reviser, Mathews, List Birds Australia (1913: 290), ICdZN Art. 24.2].
• Acanthagenys rufogularis queenslandicus Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [421].
• Acanthagenys rufogularis augusta Mathews, G.M. 1923. Additions and Corrections to my Lists of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 5: 33-44 [Date published 21 Feb 1923] [39].
• Acanthagenys rufogularis woolundra Mathews, G.M. 1920. Descriptions of new subspecies of Australian birds. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 40(76): 75-76 [Date published 30 Jan 1920] [76].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV HLW.6855 ♂, WA: Woolundra.
• Acanthagenys rufogularis parkeri Parkes, K.C. 1980. A new subspecies of the Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis, with notes on generic relationships. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 100(2): 143-147 [Date published Jun 1980] [144].

  Type data:

   Holotype CM 35755 adult ♂?, Qld: Friday Island; collection locality possiby in error.

  Secondary source:

   Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. [296].
• Acanthogenys rufigularis Gould, J. 1865. Handbook to the Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1 viii 636 pp. [Date published Sep 1865] [534] [variant spelling of specific epithet deemed identical to rufogularis, and unavailable: ICdZN Art. 58.12].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, W plateau
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, chenopodiaceous steppe, eremic riverine woodland, human habitation, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland, rocky hummock grassfield, sand-plain hummock grassfield, tropical eucalypt.

 

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020		30-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)