Species Melloria quoyi (Lesson & Garnot, 1827)

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Generic Combinations

• Melloria quoyi (Lesson & Garnot, 1827).

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

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest.

Nomenclatural details of nominate taxon, not in Australia

Barita quoyi Lesson, R.P. & Garnot, P. (1827). Description de quelques nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux de decouvert commandée par le Capitane Duperrey. Bull. Sci. Nat. 10: 289-291 [289].

General References

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

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Black Butcherbird)

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