Genus Cracticus Vieillot, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cracticus Vieillot, L.P. 1816. Analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire. Paris : Déterville 70 pp. [Date published 14 Apr 1816] [37] [published 14 April 1816, prior to Barita Cuvier, 1816 (objective synonym), published 2 December 1816].

  Type species:

   Ramphastos cassicus Boddaert, 1783 by monotypy (= Cassican calybe (Buffon, 1770)).
• Craticus Eyton, T.C. 1841. Notes on Birds. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 8(48): 46-47 [Date published Sep 1841] [presumed incorrect subsequent spelling of Cracticus Vieillot, 1816, and unavailable].
• Bulestes Cabanis, J. & Heine, F. 1851. Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt. Halberstadt : R. Frantz Vol. 1. [Date published 1851: dated 1850] [66].

  Type species:

   Lanius torquatus Latham, 1801 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Storr, G.M. 1952. Remarks on the Strepteridae. South Australian Ornithologist 20: 78-80 (synonymy of Gymnorhina)
• Johnstone, R.E. 2001. Checklist of the birds of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 75-90 (synonymy of Gymnorhina)
• Johnstone, R.E. & Storr, G.M. 2004. Handbook of Western Australian birds. Passerines (Blue-winged Pitta to Goldfinch). Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 2 x 5299 pp. (synonymy of Gymnorhina)
• Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [196] (synonymy of Gymnorhina)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [196]

Johnstone, R.E. 2001. Checklist of the birds of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 75-90

Johnstone, R.E. & Storr, G.M. 2004. Handbook of Western Australian birds. Passerines (Blue-winged Pitta to Goldfinch). Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 2 x 5299 pp.

Kearns, A.M., Joseph, L. & Cook, L.G. 2013. A multilocus coalescent analysis of the speciational history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds and their allies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 941-952

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.

Storr, G.M. 1952. Remarks on the Strepteridae. South Australian Ornithologist 20: 78-80

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Apr-2019	Cracticinae Chenu & des Murs, 1853	19-Mar-2019	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PASSERIFORMES	08-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
		04-Feb-2013	MODIFIED