Species Anthochaera (Xanthomyza) phrygia (Shaw, 1794)

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External Links

• Merops phrygius Shaw, G. 1794. Zoology of New Holland. 33 pp. in Shaw, G. & Smith, J.E. (eds). Zoology and Botany of New Holland, and the isles adjacent. The figures by J. Sowerby, F.L.S. London : J. Sowerby Vol. 1. [13].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown.
• Turdus squameus Vieillot, L.P. 1818. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle Édition. Paris : Déterville Vol. 20. [259].
• Turdus squamatus Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus Generum Avium. Tom. I. Lugduni, Batavorum : E.J. Brill 543 pp. [Date published 24 Jun 1850] [391] [presumed incorrect subsequent spelling of Turdus squameus Vieillot, 1818, and unavailable].
• Meliphaga phrygia tregellasi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [402].

Introduction

Driskell & Christidis (2004) found Xanthomyza phrygia to be nested within Acthochaera and noted behavioural and vocal similarities between the two genera previously observed. This arrangement was followed by Higgins et al. (2008), Christidis & Boles (2008) and subsequent authors.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, temperate eucalypt.

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [186]

Driskell, A.C. & Christidis, L. 2004. Phylogeny and evolution of the Australo-Papuan honeyeaters (Passeriformes, Meliphagidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 943-960 [953]

Higgins, P.J., Christidis, L. & Ford, H.A. 2008. Family Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters). pp. 498-691 in del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Penduline-tits to Shrikes. Barcelona : Lynx Editions Vol 13 pp.

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. (Regent Honeyeater)

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