Subspecies Lalage (Karua) leucomela leucomela (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Campephaga leucomela Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [215].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863.7.7.19 immature unsexed, Qld: Broad Sound.
• Lalage leucomelaena Sharpe, R.B. 1879. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum Cichlomorphae: Part 1. London : British Museum Vol. 4 xvi + 494 pp. [106] [unjustified emendation of leucomela Vigors & Horsfield, 1827].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, paperbark woodland, subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest.

 

History of changes

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