Subspecies Microeca (Microeca) fascinans fascinans (Latham, 1801)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Loxia fascinans Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [46] [for identity, see R. Schodde, Bull. BOC. 112 (1992: 185-190)].

  Type data:

   Neotype AM O.4175 adult ♂, NSW: Hornsby, Sydney.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Schodde, R. 1992. Towards stablizing the nomenclature of Australian birds: neotypification of Myzomela sanguinolenta (Latham, 1801) Microeca fascinans (Latham, 1801) and Microeca leucophaea (Latham, 1801). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 112: 185-190 [187].
• Myiagra macroptera Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [254].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863.7.7.48 adult unsexed, NSW: Sydney.
• Muscicapa platyrhyncha Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. in Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1830. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les anneés 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 1 i 268 pp. [no month of publication] [178].
• Microeca fascinans victoriae Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [302].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, 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 Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, eremic riverine woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland, paperbark woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020		16-Aug-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)