Subspecies Pachycephala (Pachycephala) melanura robusta Masters, 1876

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pachycephala robusta Masters, G. 1876. Zoology of the Chevert. Ornithology. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 1: 44-64 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM O.43509 adult ♀ (formerly Macleay Museum (BT2)), Qld: Cape York Peninsula.
• Pachycephala gutturalis violetae Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1: 73-80 [Date published 28 Jun 1912] [76] [senior to simultaneously published Pachycephala gutturalis consobrina Mathews, 1912, by action of first reviser, Mayr, AMNH Novitates 1653 (1954: 1-22)].
• Pachycephala gutturalis consobrina Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1: 73-80 [Date published 28 Jun 1912] [76].
• Pachycephala gutturalis longirostris Zietz, F.R. 1914. The avifauna of Melville Island, Northern Territory. South Australian Ornithologist 1(1): 11-18 [15] [junior primary homonym of Pachycephala longirostris Gould, 1838 = Pachycephala xanthoprocta Gould, 1838].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA B.1283 ♂, NT: Melville Island.

  Secondary source:

   Condon, H.T. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum IV. Birds. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 17: 189-193 [191].
• Pachycephala robusta borroloola Mathews, G.M. 1918–1919. On Pachycephala melanura Gould. Austral Avian Records 3(6): 134-138 [Date published 25 Jun 1918] [137].
• Pachycephala robusta intercedens Mathews, G.M. 1920. Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 8 xiv + 316 pp. [227].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal.

 

History of changes

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