Species Myiagra (Seisura) inquieta (Latham, 1801)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Turdus inquietus Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [xl] [senior to simultaneously published Turdus dubius Latham, 1802 and Turdus muscicola Latham, 1802 by action of first reviser: Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1,11 (1843: 189-194)].
• Turdus dubius Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [xl] [junior primary homonym of Turdus dubius Bechstein, 1795 = Turdus ruficollis Pallas, 1776 (Muscicapidae); for junior status with respect to simultaneously published Turdus inquietus Latham, 1802, see that synonym].
• Turdus muscicola Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [xl] [for junior status with respect to simultaneously published Turdus inquietus Latham, 1802, see that synonym].
• Seisura inquieta nea Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [323].
• Seisura inquieta westralensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [323].
• Seisura inquieta rogersi Mathews, G.M. 1921. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby Vol. 9 xiv + 518 pp. [68].

Introduction

Synonymy of M. nana with M. inquietea adopted here, following Christidis and Boles (2008: 200). This changes the concept of M. inquieta, thus necessitating allocation of a new CAVS number.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

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

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [200]

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. (Restless Flycatcher)

History of changes