Subspecies Phonygammus keraudrenii jamesii (Sharpe, 1877)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phonygama jamesii Sharpe, R.B. 1877. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the collection of the British Museum. Coliomorphae, containing the families Corvidae, Paradiseidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, and Prionopidae. London : British Museum Vol. 3 xiii + 343 pp. [181] [sometimes emended jamesi, e.g. by Mathews, Systema Avium Australasianarum 2 (1930: 880) — deemed identical: ICdZN Art. 58.14].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1877.4.6.6 adult, Papua New Guinea: Aleya.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Restricted in Australia to Torres Straits islands. Also occurs in Indonesia — Irian Jaya, and Papua New Guinea

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, tropical rainforest.

 

General 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. [525–526]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
31-Oct-2018	PARADISAEIDAE Vigors, 1825	03-Nov-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)