Subspecies Menura (Menura) novaehollandiae novaehollandiae Latham, 1801

Museums

Regional Maps

• Menura novaehollandiae Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [61] [probably published by 1 April 1802 or soon after (Browning & Monroe, Arch. Nat. Hist. 18 (1991: 385-386), but unconfirmed such that 31 Decemember 1802 is the date to be adopted under ICdZN Art. 21.3; name maintained as validly senior under ICdZN Art. 82 pending application to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to effect its conservation].
• Menura superba Davies, T. 1802. Description of Menura superba, a bird of New South Wales. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 6: 207-210 [Date published 5 June 1802] [207].
• Paradisea parkinsoniana Shaw, G. in Shaw, G. & Nodder, F.P. (ill.) 1803. The Naturalist's Miscellany; or Coloured figures of Natural objects drawn and described immediately from nature. London : Nodder Vol. XIV. [pl. 577].
• Parkinsonius mirabilis Bechstein, J.M. 1811. Kurze Uebersicht aller bekannten Vögel: oder ihre Kennzeichen der Art nach Lathams General Synopsis of Birds und seinem Index ornithologicus. Nürnberg : A.G. Schneider & Weigel iv 536 pp. 42 pls. [134].
• Menura vulgaris Fleming, J. 1822. Philosophy of Zoology; or a general view of the structure, functions, and classifications of animals. Edinburgh : Hurst Vol. 2 618 pp. [241].
• Moenura magnifica Deleuze, J.P.F. 1823. Histoire et description du Museìum d'histoire naturelle. Paris : Royer Vol. 2. [Date published 28 Jun 1823] [449].
• Moenura lyrata Dumont, C.H.F. 1824. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connaissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médecine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes. Par Plusieurs Professeurs du Jardin du Roi, et des principales Écoles de Paris. Paris : F.G. Levrault Vol. 30. [Date published 29 May 1824] [50].
• Menura paradisea Swainson, W. 1837. On the Natural History and Classification of Birds. In, Lardner, D. (ed.). The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor Vol. 2(92) vi 398 pp. [publication dated 1836-1837 Kluge, A.G. 1971. John Edward Gray and "The Zoological Miscellany". In Gray, J.E. (1831–1844). The Zoological Miscellany. [reprint]. U.S.A. Misc. Publ. of Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.] [35].
• Megapodius menura Wagler, J. 1827. Systema Avium. Pars prima. Stuttgart and Tubingen : J.G. Cottae 411 (unpaginated). [207].
• Moenura lyra Lesson, L.P. 1831. Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux. livr. 6. Paris : F.G. Levrault. [Date published 1 Mar 1831] [478].
• Menura novaehollandiae intermedea Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [58].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH 554362 ♂, NSW: Kangaroo Valley.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Greenway, J.C. 1987. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 4. Passeriformes: Tyrannidae, Pipridae, Cotingidae, Oxyruncidae, Phytotomidae, Pittidae, Philepittidae, Acanthisittidae, Menuridae, Atrichornithidae. American Museum Novitates 2879: 1-63 [Date published 10 Jun 1987] [46].
• Menura novaehollandiae intermedia Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [58] [unjustified emendation of Menura novaehollandiae intermedea Mathews, 1816].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Restricted to east central and south-east New South Wales.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC)

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, subtropical rainforest, temperate rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	PASSERIFORMES	01-Sep-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)