Genus Melloria Mathews, 1912

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• Melloria Mathews, G.M. 1912. New generic names for Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 1: 105-117 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [114].

  Type species:

   Cracticus spaldingi Masters, 1878 by original designation.

Introduction

The genus was removed from synonymy with Cracticus following arguments put forward by Cake et al. (2018) and with reference to genetic work by Kearns et al. (2013).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP) ; NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Darwin Coastal (DAC) ; NT, WA: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Cake, M., Black, A. & Joseph, L. 2018. The generic taxonomy of the Australian Magpie and Australo-Papuan butcherbirds is not all black-and-white. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 138(4): 346-359

Kearns, A.M., Joseph, L. & Cook, L.G. 2013. A multilocus coalescent analysis of the speciational history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds and their allies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 941-952

History of changes