Species Colluricincla (Myiolestes) megarhyncha (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)

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Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Northeast WA through northern NT; Nominate subspecies not recorded in Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, 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), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

 

Nomenclatural details of nominate taxon, not in Australia

Muscicapa megarhyncha Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. in Dumont-d'Urville, J. (1830). Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les anneés 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 1 i 268 pp. [172] [no month of publication].

 

General References

Marki, P.Z., Fjeldså, J., Irestedt, M. & Jønsson, K.A. 2018. Molecular phylogenetics and species limits in a cryptically coloured radiation of Australo-Papuan passerine birds (Pachycephalidae: Colluricincla). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 124: 100-105

 

Common Name References

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. (Little Shrike-thrush)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	24-May-2022	MODIFIED
		12-Mar-2013	MODIFIED