Genus Cyclopsitta Reichenbach, 1850
- Cyclopsitta Reichenbach, L. 1850. Avium Systema Naturale. Das natürliche System der Vögel mit hundert Tafeln grössentheils Original-Abbildungen der bis jetzt entdeckten fast zwölfhundert typischen Formen. Leipzig : F. Hofmeister viii 36 pp. 100 pls. [publication dated 1849–1850] [tab. (=pl.) 82] [originally published without description but made available by association with an illustration, see ICZN Art. 12(b)(7); evidently based (but without reference) on the Cyclopsitte double oeil of Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, C.H. on figs 4 and 5, plate 25 (bis) of Oiseaux In Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1853. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de vaisseau. Atlas, Zoologie. Paris : Gide et Cie et J. Baudry [published between 1842–1853], see Schodde, R. 1978. The identity of five type-specimens of New Guinean birds. Emu 78: 1–6; type species designated according to ICZN Art. 69(a)(vii); for identity of drawing of Cyclopsitta Reichenbach, 1850 in the protologue, see Schodde (loc. cit.), cf. Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171–455 [publication dated Jan. 1912, published 31 Jan.] [261] who treated it as indeterminable, and Holyoak, D.T. 1970. The relation of the parrot genus Opopsitta to Psittaculirostris. Emu 70: 198 who identified it with Psittaculirostris desmarestii (Desmarest, 1826); although most revisers through the middle of the 20th century accepted Mathews's rejection of Cyclopsitta Reichenbach, 1850 in favour of Opopsitta Sclater, 1860, the former name has now come back into frequent use in the Australian literature and is the name employed in the principal modern references for New Guinea where the genus is centred, see Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls; Beehler, B.M. & Finch, B.W. 1985. Species-Checklist of the Birds of New Guinea. Australasian Ornithological Monographs No. 1. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iii 126 pp.; Beehler, B.M., Pratt, T.K. & Zimmerman, D.A. 1986. Birds of New Guinea. Handbook no. 9 of the Wau Ecology Institute. Princeton : Princeton University Press xiii 293 pp. 55 pls; Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp.—accordingly it is taken up here as the valid senior synonym for the fig parrots; a case made to reject it by McAllan, I.A.W. & Bruce, M.D. 1989. The Birds of New South Wales A Working List. Turramurra, New South Wales : Biocon Research Group vii 103 pp. [publication dated 1988, published May 1989] (41) is based on an unjustified presumption of ICZN Art. 79(c)(2)(iii)].
Type species:
Psittacula diophthalma Hombron & Jaquinot, 1841 by subsequent monotypy, see Pucheran, J. 1853. Mammifères et Oiseaux. 166, 56, 107 pp. in Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, C.H. (eds). Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837-1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de Vaisseau. Zoologie. Paris : Gide & Baudry Vol. 3 166 pp. [Pt 1, p. 107] (as 'Cyclopsitte double oeil'). - Cyclopsitta Pucheran, J. 1853. Mammifères et Oiseaux. 166, 56, 107 pp. in Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, C.H. (eds). Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837-1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de Vaisseau. Zoologie. Paris : Gide & Baudry Vol. 3 166 pp. [Pt 1, 166 pp. p.107] [junior homonym of Cyclopsitta Reichenbach, 1850; commonly attributed to Jaquinot & Pucheron, but for authorship, see Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B [publication dated as from preface, 12 June 1919 given in Appendix B] (Appendix B); Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240); also as incorrect subsequent spelling, Cyclopsittacus by Sundevall, C.J. 1872. Methodi Naturalis Avium Disponendarum Tentamen. Stockholm : Samson & Wallin lxix 187 + 12 pp. (p. 69 in Pt 1)].
Type species:
Psittacula diophthalma Hombron & Jaquinot, 1841 by monotypy. - Opopsitta Sclater, P.L. 1860. On the species of the genus Prioniturus, and on the geographical distribution of the Psittacidae in the Eastern Archipelago. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1860: 223-228 [227] [published without description and arguably as a slip for Cyclopsitta Reichenbach, 1850 or Pucheran, 1853, but based by reference on two nominal species including Psittacula diophthalma Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841, and available under ICZN Art. 12(b)(5)].
Type species:
Psittacula diophthalma Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841 by subsequent designation, see Salvadori, T. 1880. Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Parte Prima. Torino : G.B. Paravia & Co. xii 573 pp. [149]. - Cyclopsittacus Salvadori, T. 1880. Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Parte Prima. Torino : G.B. Paravia & Co. xii 573 pp. [149] [unjustified emendation of Cyclopsitta Pucheron, 1853 (as Jaquinot & Pucheron, 1853)].
- Manopsitta Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55-62 [For publication date Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240) Mathews, G.M. 1912. Dates of issue of Lear's Illustr. Psittacidae and of the Verhandelingen over de Naturlijke (sic) Geschiedenis.: Land-en Volkenkunde. Austral Avian Records 1: 23–24] [62] [nom. nov. for Opopsitta Sclater, 1860, but with incorrectly designated type species (Cyclopsitta coxeni Gould, 1867)—later used as name-bearer for separate subgenus, see Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 1. pp. 1–104 pls 275–282 [publication dated as 1916–1917, 22 Nov. 1916] (64)].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
New Guinea and adjacent islands.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
Distribution References
- Beehler, B.M., Pratt, T.K. & Zimmerman, D.A. 1986. Birds of New Guinea. Handbook no. 9 of the Wau Ecology Institute. Princeton : Princeton University Press xiii 293 pp. 55 pls.
- Forshaw, J.M. 1978. Parrots of the World. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 616 pp. 158 pls. (as Opopsitta Sclater, 1860)
- Mayr, E. 1941. List of New Guinea Birds. A Systematic and Faunal List of the Birds of New Guinea and Adjacent Islands. New York : American Museum of Natural History xi 260 pp. (as Opopsitta Sclater, 1860)
- Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp.
General References
Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
Holyoak, D.T. 1970. The relation of the parrot genus Opopsitta to Psittaculirostris. The Emu 70: 198 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 1. pp. 1-104 pls 275-282. [Date published 22 Nov. 1916: publication dated as 1916–1917] [65] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 6 pp. 445-516 + xix pls 317-324. [Date published 11 Dec. 1917] [xix] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
History of changes
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