Subspecies Philemon (Tropidorhynchus) corniculatus monachus (Latham, 1801)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Merops monachus Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [xxxiv].

  Secondary source:

   Schodde, R., Dickinson, E.C., Steinheimer, F.D. & Bock, W.J. 2010. The Date of Latham’s Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici: 1801 or 1802? South Australian Ornithologist 35(8): 231-235.
• Merops tuberculatus Forster, J.R. 1794. Tagebuch einer Reise nach Neu Sued-Wallis von John White Esq., Magazin von merkwuerdigen neuen Reise Beschreibungen. Berlin : J.R. Forster Vol. 5. [129].
• Merops nodifrons Forster, J.R. 1794. Tagebuch einer Reise nach Neu Sued-Wallis von John White Esq., Magazin von merkwuerdigen neuen Reise Beschreibungen. Berlin : J.R. Forster Vol. 5. [97] [senior to simultaneously published Merops tuberculatus J.R. Forster, 1794, by action of first reviser, R. Schodde, this work: ICdZN Art.24.2; replaces Philemon corniculatus monachus (Latham, 1802) as the valid name for this subspecies, cf. Schodde & Mason, The Directory of Australian Birds Passerines (1999: 292)].
• Philemon corniculatus clamans Salomonsen, F. 1966. Preliminary descriptions of new honey-eaters (Aves, Meliphagidae). Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 254: 1-12 [10].

  Type data:

   Holotype LACM 15117 adult ♂, Qld: Wallaroo Gorge, Carnarvon Range.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Philemon corniculatus monachus (Latham, 1801).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, eremic riverine woodland, human habitation, paperbark woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

History of changes