Species Petroica (Littlera) phoenicea Gould, 1837

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• Petroica phoenicea Gould, 1837.

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 657 adult ♂, South Australia.
• Muscicapa chrysoptera Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. in Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1830. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les anneés 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 1 i 268 pp. [no month of publication] [177] [holotype (probable immature male) identifiable with this species because of extensive white panels in outer rectrices, pallid ventrum and prominent twin cream-buff remige stripes; hitherto identified with this species also by Mathews in his lists of 1913 and 1946 and in his The Birds of Australia 8 (1919-1920) — but Mathews vacillated, following outside opinion in treating the name as a synonym of Petroica rodinogaster (Drapiez, 1820) in his other lists of 1930 and 1931; because (1) Mathews' lists have never been adopted, (2) Muscicapa chrysoptera Quoy & Gaimard has not been used as valid any other primary literature since the mid 19th century, and (3) Petroica phoenicea Gould, 1837 has been used universally in its place since then, chrysoptera Quoy & Gaimard, 1830 is treated as a nomen oblitum here: ICdZN Art. 23.9].
• Petroica chrysoptera addenda Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1: 81-103 [Date published 18 Sep 1912] [89].
• Petroica phoenicea albicans Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [304].
• Littlera phoenicea tasmanica Mathews, G.M. 1922. Additions and corrections. Austral Avian Records 5: 1-9 [5].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Alpine meadow, human habitation, low sclerophyll heath, temperate eucalypt, wet sclerophyll forest.

 

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Flame Robin)

 

History of changes

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