Subspecies Daphoenositta (Neositta) chrysoptera pileata (Gould, 1838)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sittella pileata Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [Pt 3, published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] [pl. 68] [senior to simultaneously published Sittella melanocephala Gould, 1838, by action of first reviser, Gould, The Birds of Australia 4 (1848: text to pl. 104), ICdZN Art. 24.2].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 9181 ♀, Western Australia.
• Sittella melanocephala Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [Pt 3, published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] [pl. 68] [for juniority with respect to simultaneously published Sittella pileata Gould, 1838, see that synonym].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 9185 ♀, WA: Swan River.
• Sittella tenuirostris Gould, J. 1865. Handbook to the Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1 viii 636 pp. [Date published Sep 1865] [615].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1881.5.1.4341 immature unsexed, South Australia.
• Neositta pileata milligani Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [380].
• Neositta pileata broomi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [380].
• Neositta pileata whitlocki Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [47].
• Neositta chrysoptera broomei Greenway, 1967.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
  • South Australia
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, eremic riverine woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland, paperbark woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt, wet sclerophyll forest.

 

History of changes

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