Species Chlamydera maculata (Gould, 1837)

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• Ptilonorhynchus maculata Gould, J. 1837. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [publication dated 1837–1838, Pt 2, Jan. (=Apr.) 1837] [pl. 6] [maculata (spotted or blotched)].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♂ (not located, presumed to be the colour plate (Frith & Frith 2004)), New Holland (=NSW: Liverpool Plains).
• Chlamydodera occipitalis Gould, J. 1875. On the Bower-birds of Australia, with the description of a new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 16: 429 [429].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1881.5.1.1779 adult ♂, Qld: Port Albany (= Somerset).

  Secondary source:

   Gould, J. 1879. The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1. (text to pl. 45. correction of type locality from New Guinea to Port Albany, Queensland).
• Chlamydera maculata clelandi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [439].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 679122, South Australia
  Comment: named for J.B. Cleland.
• Chlamydera maculata sedani Mathews, G.M. 1913. New species and subspecies of Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 2: 73-79 [published Dec.] [78].

  Type data:

   Holotype 679144 unknown, Qld: Cloncurry River
  Comment: named for the collection locality (Sedan Station).

Generic Combinations

• Chlamydera maculata (Gould, 1837). —
  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. [634]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS)

Ecological Descriptors

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

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