Species Gerygone insularis E.P. Ramsay, 1878 (Extinct)

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External Links

• Gerygone insularis Ramsay, E.P. 1878. On two new species of Gerygone. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3: 116-117 [117] [orignally described as Gerygone insularius [Sic]; this name is emended as a justfiable emendation ICdZN Art. 32.2.2].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA adult ♂ (Missing from collection), NSW: Lord Howe Island [26°2'3, 159°15'E].

  Type locality references:

  Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [40].
• Gerygone thorpei Ramsay, E.P. 1888. Description of a new species of Gerygone from Lord Howe's Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2: 677 [677].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM O.1464 adult ♂, NSW: Lord Howe Island.

  Type locality references:

  Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [16].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Extinct

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, subtropical rainforest.

 

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [31] (full species status)

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. (as subspecies of ingata)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	20-Dec-2021	MODIFIED
31-Oct-2018	ACANTHIZIDAE Bonaparte, 1854	01-Oct-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		20-Aug-2013	MODIFIED