Subgenus Myiagra (Myiagra) Vigors & Horsfield, 1827

Museums

Regional Maps

• Myiagra 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] [250] [senior to simultaneously published Seisura Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 when the two nominal genera are combined in one genus — action of first reviser, Mayr, 63(1963: 1-7), ICdZN Art. 24.2; not a junior homonym of Myiagrus Boie, 1831, = Myagrus Boie, 1826 (Sylviidae): ICdZN Art. 56.2].

  Type species:

   Myiagra rubeculoides Vigores & Horsfield, 1827 (=Todus rubecula (Latham, 1801)) by subsequent designation, see Gray, G.R. 1840. A List of the Genera of Birds, with an indication of the typical species of each genus. London : R. & J.E. Taylor viii 80 pp. [Date published Apr 1840: published before Apr.] [23].
• Mastersornis Mathews, G.M. 1917. New subspecies and notes on species. Austral Avian Records 3(4): 69-78 [Date published 21 Jul 1917] [78].

  Type species:

   Todus rubecula Latham, 1801 by original designation.
• Myagra Antinori, O. 1864. Catalogo descrittivo di una Collezione di Uccelli fatta nell' interno dell' Affrica centrale Nord. Milano xxix, 118 pp. [presumed incorrect subsequent spelling of Myiagra Vigors & Horsfield, 1827, and unavailable].

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), 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
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: N coastal, W plateau
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)