Subspecies Anthochaera (Anellobia) chrysoptera chrysoptera (Latham, 1801)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Merops chrysopterus Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [33] [junior to simultaneously published Certhia mellivora Latham, 1802 by action of first reviser: G.R. Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11,1 (1843: 189-194) (ICdZN Art. 24.2) — but treated here as a nomen protectum because used as senior in almost all primary literature since 1899: ICdZN Art. 23.9].
• Certhia mellivora Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [xxxvii] [senior to simultaneously published Merops chrysopterus Latham, 1802 by action of first reviser: G.R. Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11,1 (1843: 189-194) (ICdZN Art.24.2) — but designated here a nomen oblitum under ICdZN Art. 23.9 for reasons given under Merops chrysopterus Latham, 1802].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Watling drawing No. 104 (in Library of Zoology Department, British Museum (Natural History)), NSW: Sydney.
• Certhia goruk Bechstein, J.M. 1811. Kurze Uebersicht aller bekannten Vögel: oder ihre Kennzeichen der Art nach Lathams General Synopsis of Birds und seinem Index ornithologicus. Nürnberg : A.G. Schneider & Weigel iv 536 pp. 42 pls. [198].
• Anellobia chrysoptera intermedia Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [419].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, human habitation, low sclerophyll heath, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, wet sclerophyll forest.

 

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)