Subspecies Myzomela (Cosmeteira) obscura obscura Gould, 1843

Museums

Regional Maps

• Myzomela obscura Gould, J. 1843. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Oct. 11, 1842. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842(10): 131-140 [Date published Feb 1843: publication dated 1842] [136].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 18227 ♂, NT: Port Essington.
• Myzomela obscura grisescens Hartert, E. 1905. List of birds collected in north-western Australia and Arnhem Land by Mr. J.T. Tunney. Novitates Zoologicae 12: 194-242 [235].
• Myzomela obscura apsleyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [48].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, paperbark woodland, tropical eucalypt, tropical rainforest.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020		30-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)