Subspecies Chlamydera guttata guttata (Gould, 1862)

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• Chlamydera guttata Gould, J. 1862. On a new species of Chlamydera, or Bower-Bird. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1862(2): 161-162 [Date published 1 Aug 1862] [162] [guttata, Latin guttatus (= speckled or spotted).].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1888.1.27.37, North-western Australia.
• Chlamydera maculata subguttata Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [440].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 679150 unknown, WA: East Murchison.
• Chlamydera maculata macdonaldi Mathews, G.M. 1913. New species and subspecies of Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 2: 73-79 [published Dec.] [78] [named for the collection locality].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 679148 unknown, NT: Macdonnell Range.

Generic Combinations

• Ptilonorhynchus guttata guttata (Gould, 1862).
• Chlamydera guttatus guttatus (Gould, 1862). —
  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. [632]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, eremic riverine woodland, mulga woodland, tropical eucalypt.

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