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Subspecies Macropygia (Macropygia) phasianella quinkan Schodde, 1989

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Subspecies Macropygia (Macropygia) phasianella quinkan Schodde, 1989

  • Macropygia amboinensis quinkan Schodde, R. 1989. New subspecies of Australian birds. Canberra Bird Notes 13: 119-122 [Date published Feb. 1989: publication dated as Dec. 1988] [119].
    Type data:
     Holotype QM 4934 ♂ adult, Tozer Gap, Cape York Peninsula, QLD.
    Paratype(s) ANWC 40604 ♂ adult; ANWC 40605 ♀ adult; NMV ♂ adult (D.F Thomson coll. no. 322); QM 4929 ♂ adult; QM 4930 ♂ adult; QM 4933 ♂ adult; ANWC 18207 ♂ adult.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal pockets around Cape York Peninsula and adjacent ranges, between the lower Wenlock River on the west coast and the Stewart River in the east. Possibly intergrades with M. a. robinsoni Mathews, 1912 in pockets around Princess Charlotte Bay.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder/opportunistic breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds arboreally on fruit and seeds in and on edges of rainforest and vine scrub and in mesophyll forest galleries in eucalypt forest, nests in trees and tall bushes, wanders locally to seasonal flushes of food.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
05-Apr-2019 Macropygia Swainson, 1837 19-Mar-2019 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)