Subspecies Ptilotula fusca fusca (Gould, 1837)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Meliphaga fusca Gould, J. 1837. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [publication dated 1837–1838, Pt 2, Jan. (=Apr.) 1837] [pl. 26] [because of universal use since description, fusca Gould, 1837 is kept as a nomen protectum with respect to Certhia cana Bechstein, 1811: ICdZN Art. 23.9.1,2].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 18510 ♂, New South Wales.
• Ptilotis minuta Von Pelzeln, A. 1865. Woegel, in Resie der Osterreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um der Erde in den Jahren 1858-59 unter den Bejehlen des Commodore B. von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Vienna Vol. 1. [56].
• Ptilotis fusca dingi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [404].
• Certhia cana Bechstein, J.M. 1811. Kurze Uebersicht aller bekannten Vögel: oder ihre Kennzeichen der Art nach Lathams General Synopsis of Birds und seinem Index ornithologicus. Nürnberg : A.G. Schneider & Weigel iv 536 pp. 42 pls. [based on Thomas Watling drawing no. 117 in NHM — see Mathews, List Birds Australia (1913: 329); for identity of drawing, see Sharpe, History Collections BMNH 2(1906)130 and Hindwood, Proc. Roy. Zool. Soc. NSW 1968-69 (1970: 130); because the name has remained virtually used since description, it is treated as a nomen oblitum under ICdZN Art. 23.9.1,2].

 

Generic Combinations

• Ptilotula fusca fusca (Gould, 1837). —
  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 fuscus fuscus (Gould, 1837).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, 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 Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, 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)