Subspecies Chlamydera nuchalis nuchalis (Jardine & Selby, 1830)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis Jardine, W. & Selby, P.J. 1830. Illustrations of Ornithology. Edinburgh : Daniel Lizars Vol. 2. [pl. 103] [nuchalis modern Latin (= nuchal or of the nape)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NT: Port Darwin district.

  Secondary source:

   Frith, C.B. & Frith, D.W. 2004. The Bowerbirds: Ptilonorhynchidae. London : Oxford University Press xxiii 508 pp. [424] (type specimen possibly based on colour plate)).
• Chlamydera nuchalis melvillensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [52] [named for the collection locality].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 679269 unknown, NT: Coopers Camp, Aspley Strait, Melville Island.
• Chlamydera nuchalis oweni Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [440].

 

Generic Combinations

• Chlamydera nuchalis nuchalis (Jardine & Selby, 1830). —
  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. [636]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Includes Tiwi Islands and Groote Eylandt

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, paperbark woodland, tropical eucalypt.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Nov-2020	AVES	11-Nov-2020	MOVED
10-Nov-2020	PASSERIFORMES	19-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)