Subspecies Melithreptus (Eidopsarus) brevirostris brevirostris (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)

Museums

Museum list

Regional Maps

CAVS: 8304

Subspecies Melithreptus (Eidopsarus) brevirostris brevirostris (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)

Meliphaga brevirostris 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] [315].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1863.7.7.66 immature unsexed, NSW: Sydney.
Melithreptus breviceps De Vis, C.W. 1884. Notes on the fauna of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 1: 154-160 [nomen nudum, presumably in error for Melithreptus brevirostris Vigors & Horsfield, 1827; not made available by introduction into the synonymy of this species by Mathews, The Birds of Australia 11 (1924: 272), ICdZN Art. 11.5,6].
Melithreptus atricapillus submagnirostris Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [393].

Distribution

States

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

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

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- South Australia: SE coastal
- Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, low sclerophyll heath, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, temperate eucalypt, temperate rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

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)
10-Nov-2020		30-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory