Species Acanthiza (Acanthiza) pusilla (Shaw, 1790)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acanthiza pusilla bunya Mathews, G.M. 1920. Untitled. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 40(249): 105-107 [Date published 1 Mar 1920] [105] [type material intergradient between Acanthiza pusilla pusilla (Shaw, 1790) and A. p. dawsonensis A. G. Campbell, 1922].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH 600486 Unsexed, Qld: Bunya Mountains [26°52'S, 151°35'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH 600485 adult ♂, Qld: Bunya Mountains [26°52'S, 151°35'E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1922. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby Vol. 9 pp. 242-518. [Date published 3 Aug 1922] [414]; LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [152].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [152].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS) ; SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB) ; Tas: Tasmanian West (TWE)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, low sclerophyll heath, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, subtropical rainforest, temperate eucalypt, temperate rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

 

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [44] (Brown Thornbill, Broad-tailed Thornbill, Brown Tit, Brown-rumped Tit, Brown-tail, Dusky Warbler, Large-billed Tit, Scrub Tit, Tit-bat, Tit-warbler)

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. (Brown Thornbill)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	19-Apr-2023	MODIFIED
31-Oct-2018	ACANTHIZIDAE Bonaparte, 1854	03-Dec-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		12-Feb-2010	(import)