Subspecies Melithreptus (Eidopsarus) brevirostris magnirostris North, 1905

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melithreptus magnirostris North, A.J. 1905. On an insular form of Melithreptus brevirostris, Vigors and Horsfield. Records of the Australian Museum 6(1): 20-21 [Date published 15 Jun 1905] [20].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA B.8610 ♂, SA: Eastern Cove, Kangaroo Island.
  Paratype(s) SAMA B.8616 ♀, SA: Eastern Cove, Kangaroo Island; AM O.14271 adult ♂, SA: Eastern Cove, Kangaroo Island.

  Secondary source:

   Hindwood, K.A. 1946. A list of the types and paratypes of birds from Australian localities in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 386-393 [392]; Condon, H.T. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum IV. Birds. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 17: 189-193 [192]; Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [27].
• Melithreptus atricapillus insularis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [394].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 691686 unsexed, SA: Point Morrison, Kangaroo Island; p. 139 type locality correction from King Island to Kangaroo Island.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Restricted to Kangaroo Island.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

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)