Subspecies Oriolus (Mimeta) sagittatus sagittatus (Latham, 1801)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oriolus sagittatus subaffinis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [435] [holotype prevailingly identifiable with nominotypical Oriolus sagittatus sagittatus (Latham, 1802): see Schodde & Mason, The Directory of Australian Birds Passerines (1999: 603)].
• Coracias sagittata Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [xxvi] [junior to simultaneously published Gracula viridis Latham, 1802 (attributed to King, 1826, in combination with Mimeta) by action of first reviser, G.R. Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1,11 (1843: 190), ICdZN Art. 24.2 — but maintained here as a nomen protectum because used as valid for this taxon in virtually all primary literature since 1899: ICdZN Art. 23.9].
• Gracula viridis Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [xxviii] [senior to simultaneously published Coracias sagittata Latham, 1802 by action of first reviser, G.R. Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1,11 (1843: 190), ICdZN Art. 24.2 — but designated a nomen oblitum here because unused as valid for this taxon in virtually all primary literature since 1899: ICdZN Art. 23.9].
• Coracias striata Shaw, G. 1809. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Aves. London : Kearsley, Wilkie & Robinson Vol. 7. [400].
• Oriolus variegatus Vieillot, L.P. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle edition. Paris : Déterville Vol. 18. [Date published 27 Dec 1817] [196].
• Mimeta meruloides 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] [327].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863.7.7.70 immature unsexed, New South Wales.

 

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 (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), 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, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, eremic riverine woodland, paperbark woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

 

History of changes

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