Genus Chloris Cuvier, 1800

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chloris Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1800. Leçons d'anatomie comparée … de G. Cuvier; recueillies et publiées sous ses yeux par C. Duméril. Paris : Baudouin. [tab. 2].

  Type species:

   Loxia chloris Linnaeus, 1758 by Linnaean tautonymy.
• Ligurinus Koch, K.L. 1816. System der baierischen Zoologie. Nürnberg : Steinischen Buchhandlung Vol. 1 xlviii 435 pp. [229].
• Chlorospiza Bonaparte, C.L.J.L. 1838. A Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and North America. London : John Van Voorst vii, 67 pp. [30].

  Type species:

   Loxia chloris Linnaeus, 1766 by monotypy.
• Chloreus Kaup, J. 1829. Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte und Natürliches System der Europäischen Thierwelt. Leipzig : C.W. Leske xii 204 pp. [161] [presumed nomen nudum].

 

Introduction

Recognised with full genus status, following Christidis and Boles (2008: 214).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
• New Zealand

Palaearctic Region

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [214]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)