Subgenus Meliphaga (Meliphaga) Lewin, 1808

Museums

Regional Maps

• Meliphaga Lewin, J. 1808. Birds of New Holland with their Natural History. London : White & Bagster 22 pp. [Date published Sep 1808] [4] [for identity and type species, see Mathews, Austral Avian Rec. 1(1913: 184-186)].

  Type species:

   Meliphaga chrysotis Lewin, 1808 by subsequent monotypy, see Gray, G.R. 1840. A List of the Genera of Birds, with an indication of the typical species of each genus. London : R. & J.E. Taylor viii 80 pp. [Date published Apr 1840: published before Apr.] [15].
• Ptilotis Swainson, W. 1837. On the Natural History and Classification of Birds. In, Lardner, D. (ed.). The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor Vol. 2(92) vi 398 pp. [publication dated 1836-1837 Kluge, A.G. 1971. John Edward Gray and "The Zoological Miscellany". In Gray, J.E. (1831–1844). The Zoological Miscellany. [reprint]. U.S.A. Misc. Publ. of Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.] [326] [not a junior homonym of Ptilotus Fischer, 1813: ICdZN Art. 56.2].

  Type species:

   Ptilotis lewinii Swainson, 1837 by subsequent designation, see Salvadori, T. 1881. Ornithologiae della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Turin : T. Salvadori Vol. 2. [326].
• Dorothina Mathews, G.M. 1914. New genera. Austral Avian Records 2: 110-112 [111].

  Type species:

   Meliphaga lewinii Swainson, 1837 by original designation.
• Ptilotina Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55-62 [For publication date Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240) Mathews, G.M. 1912. Dates of issue of Lear's Illustr. Psittacidae and of the Verhandelingen over de Naturlijke (sic) Geschiedenis.: Land-en Volkenkunde. Austral Avian Records 1: 23–24] [60].

  Type species:

   Ptilotis analoga mixta Mathews, 1912 by original designation.
• Melliphaga Swainson, 1821.
• Ptilotes Selby, P.J. 1840. A Catalogue of the Generic and Sub-generic Types of the Class Aves, Birds, arranged according to the Natural System. Newcastle : T. & J. Hodgson 70 pp. [presumed incorrect subsequent spelling of Ptilotis Swainson, 1837, and unavailable].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020		30-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)