Subspecies Erythrura (Acalanthe) trichroa macgillivrayi Mathews, 1914

Museums

Regional Maps

• Erythrura trichroa macgillivrayi Mathews, G.M. 1914. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2(5): 83-107 [Date published 24 Sep 1914] [103] [retained as a subspecies distinct from E. t. sigillifer De Vis (Schodde & Mason, 1999)].

  Secondary source:

   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. [766].
• Lobospingus sigillifer De Vis, C.W. 1897. Diagnoses of thirty-six new or little-known birds from British New Guinea. Ibis 7 3(11): 371-392 [Date published Jul 1897] [389] [the epithet sigillifer is advisedly treated as a noun in apposition: ICdZN Art. 31.2.2, example].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Erythrura trichroa sigillifer De Vis, 1897 [treated as conspecific with E. t. sigillifer]. —
  del Hoyo, J. & Collar, N.J. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International illustrated checklist of the birds of the world. Volume 2: Passerines. Barcelona : Lynx Edicions pp. 1013. [726]

Introduction

del Hoyo & Collar (2014) consider this subspecies conspecific with E. trichroa sigillifer based on plumage, we retain it as separate pending a more complete assessment of the species and its constituent subspecies.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

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

History of changes