Subspecies Aplonis (Lamprocorax) metallica metallica (Temminck, 1824)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lamprotornis metallicus Temminck, C.J. & Laugier de Chartrouse, M. 1824. Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris : G. Levrault Vol. 3. [Date published 22 May 1824] [pl. 266].
• Calornis purpurascens Gray, G.R. 1870. Hand-list of genera and species of birds, distinguishing those contained in the British Museum. London : British Museum Part 2 pp. xv +278. [26].

  Type data:

   Holotype (the type is plate 33 in Gould's Supplement to the Birds of Australia (1851)), locality unknown.

  Secondary source:

   Warren, R.L.M. & Harrison, C.J.O. 1971. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2 Passerines. London : British Museum vi 628 pp. [453] (reference and discussion as to the type designation of this taxon).
• Lamprocorax metallicus sapphire Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [437].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
  • Kei Islands
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	Aplonis Gould, 1836	10-Feb-2014	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)