Subspecies Gavicalis versicolor versicolor (Gould, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ptilotis versicolor Gould, J. 1843. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Oct. 11, 1842. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842(10): 131-140 [Date published Feb 1843: publication dated 1842] [136].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 18528 adult unsexed, NT: Port Essington (= Qld: Cape York); Type locality correction on label (Mathews 1914).
• Meliphaga versicolor clelandi Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [132].

 

Generic Combinations

• Lichenostomus versicolor versicolor (Gould, 1843).
• Gavicalis versicolor versicolor (Gould, 1843). —
  Nyári, A.S. & Joseph, L. 2011. Systematic dismantlement of Lichenostomus improves the basis for understanding relationships within the honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) and the historical development of Australo-Papuan bird communities. Emu 111: 202–211

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, human habitation, mangrove or mangal.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	PASSERIFORMES	02-Apr-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
10-Nov-2020		04-Feb-2013	MOVED
10-Nov-2020		30-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)