Subspecies Gavicalis virescens forresti (Ingram, 1906)

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Regional Maps

• Ptilotis forresti Ingram, C 1906. Untitled. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 16(126): 115-116 [Date published 10 Jul 1906] [116].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1881.5.1.5575 adult unsexed, NT: Alexandra Station; AMNH, NT: Alexandra Station.
• Ptilotis sonora rogersi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [406] [senior to simultaneously published Ptilotis sonora decipiens Mathews, 1912 by action of first reviser, Mathews, Systema Avium Australasianarum 2(1930: 774), ICdZN Art. 24.2].
• Ptilotis sonora decipiens Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [406].
• Ptilotis sonora murchisoni Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [405].
• Dorothina virescens everardi Mathews, G.M. 1916. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, June 14, 1916. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 36: 89-92 [Date published 7 Jul 1916] [91].
• Meliphaga virescens lewisi Mathews, G.M. 1942. New forms of Australian birds. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 77-78 [Date published 12 Feb 1942] [77].
• Meliphaga virescens lipferti Mathews, G.M. 1942. New forms of Australian birds. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 27: 77-78 [Date published 12 Feb 1942] [77].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM A.4077 ♂, WA: Well 33, Canning Stock Route.

 

Generic Combinations

• Gavicalis virescens forresti (Ingram, 1906). —
  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
• Lichenostomus virescens forresti (Ingram, 1906).

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), 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), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, casuarina-cypress woodland, chenopodiaceous steppe, eremic riverine woodland, human habitation, lignum or cane grass swamp, low sclerophyll heath, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland, rocky hummock grassfield, samphire salt marsh, sand-plain hummock grassfield, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

 

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)