Subspecies Melithreptus (Eidopsarus) gularis laetior Gould, 1875

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Subspecies Melithreptus (Eidopsarus) gularis laetior Gould, 1875

Melithreptus laetior Gould, J. 1875. Further contributions to the Ornithology of Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 16: 285-287 [Date published 1 Oct 1875] [287].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1881.5.1.4328 adult ♂, SA: Lake Eyre.
Melithreptus gularis coongani Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [392].
Melithreptus laetior northi Mathews, G.M. 1923. Additions and Corrections to my Lists of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 5: 33-44 [Date published 21 Feb 1923] [37].
Melithreptus laetior parus Salomonsen, F. 1966. Preliminary descriptions of new honey-eaters (Aves, Meliphagidae). Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 254: 1-12 [8].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 691546 adult ♂, WA: Exmouth Gulf.

Introduction

Treated as a species by del Hoyo & Collar (2016) but this has not been followed universally and we retain the taxa as a subspecies until further work can elucidate relationships within Melithreptus

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

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

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
- Northern Territory
- Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, eremic riverine woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

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)

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