Subspecies Orthonyx spaldingii spaldingii Ramsay, 1868

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Subspecies Orthonyx spaldingii spaldingii Ramsay, 1868

Orthonix spaldingii Ramsay, E.P. 1868. Description of a new species of Orthonix, from N.E. Coast. Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Mar 1868. 4 pp. [4].
Type data:

Syntype(s) BMNH 1881.5.1.4236 adult ♀, Qld: about 35 miles inland from Rockingham Bay; BMNH adult ♂, Qld: about 35 miles inland from Rockingham Bay.
Macrorthonyx spaldingi albiventer Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [130].
Type data:
Lectotype AMNH 585108 adult ♂ (ex Mathews Collection #6014 via Rothschild Collection), Qld: Atherton.
Paralectotype(s) AMNH 585109 ♂ (ex Mathews Collection #6013 via Rothschild Collection), Qld: Atherton; AMNH 585110 ♀ (ex Mathews Collection #5977 via Rothschild Collection), Qld: Atherton; AMNH 585111 ♀ (ex Mathews Collection #6563 via Rothschild Collection), Qld: Atherton; AMNH 585112 (ex Mathews Collection #2001 via Rothschild Collection), Qld: Atherton; AMNH 585113 (ex Mathews Collection #2002 via Rothschild Collection), Qld: Atherton; AMNH 585114 (ex Mathews Collection #2003 via Rothschild Collection), Qld: Atherton; AMNH 585115 (ex Mathews Collection #2005 via Rothschild Collection), Qld: Atherton; AMNH 585116 (ex Mathews Collection #2004 via Rothschild Collection), Qld: Atherton.
Subsequent designation references:
LeCroy, M. 2005. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 6. Passeriformes: Prunellidae, Turdidae, Orthonychidae, Timaliidae, Paradoxornithidae, Picathartidae and Polioptilidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 292: 1-132 [Date published 5 May 2005] [55].
Orthonyx spaldingi Ramsay, E.P. 1868. On certain new and rare species of birds found at Rockingham Bay, Queensland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868: 381-388 [Date published 1 Oct 1868] [386] [subsequent spelling of spaldingii Ramsay, March 1868 deemed identical: ICdZN Art. 58.14].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Macalister/Herberton Ranges to Seaview/Paluma Ranges.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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

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