Subspecies Climacteris (Climacteris) melanurus melanurus Gould, 1843

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• Climacteris melanura Gould, J. 1843. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Oct. 11, 1842. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842(10): 131-140 [Date published Feb 1843: publication dated 1842] [138].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 9213 adult unsexed, Australia: North West Coast (= WA: Derby).

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1923. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby Vol. 11. [503] (selection of Lynd (= Nassau) River as type locality).
• Climacteris melanura alexandrae Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [381].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Eremic riverine woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

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