Subspecies Aprosmictus erythropterus coccineopterus Gould, 1865
- Ptistes coccineopterus Gould, J. 1865. Handbook to the Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 2 629 pp. [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] [39] [lectotypification by Stone, W. in Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. A list of the species of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the location of the type-specimens. Austral Avian Records 1: 129–180 does not restrict type locality because the lectotype carries only the annotation 'northern Australia'; it is possible but unconfirmed that the male and female figured on pl. 18 in Gould, J. 1848. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 5 92 pls pp. [Pt 8, 1842] are part of the type series].
Type data:
Lectotype ANSP 22757 ♂ adult (Verreaux cat. no. 269), Port Essington, NT, or adjacent northwest parts of Australia.
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1850.7.20.190 ♂ adult; ANSP 22758 ♀ adult (Verreaux cat. no. 270)
Comment: for identification of type series, see Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246; Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.Subsequent designation references:
Stone, W. in Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. A list of the species of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the location of the type-specimens. Austral Avian Records 1: 129-180 [Date published 28 Feb 1913].
Generic Combinations
- Aprosmictus erythropterus coccineopterus (Gould, 1865). —
Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [268] - Aprosmictus coccineopterus (Gould, 1865). —
Ramsay, E.P. 1878. Tabular list of all Australian birds at present known — showing the distribution of the species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 2: 177-212 [Date published Jan 1878] [193]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Northern Australia from the Kimberley, WA, east to Cape York, QLD
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, diurnal, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, nomadic, open forest, resident, terrestrial, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds in trees and shrubs in eucalypt woodlands and open forest on fruits and seeds, (sometimes on ground), rather solitary or in small groups, flies erratically with deep jerked wing beats, nests on bed of wood debris in tree hollows, incubation by female, both sexes rear whitish-downed, dull orange-yellow-billed chicks, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| AVES | 05-Nov-2020 | ADDED |