Subgenus Pitta (Pitta) Vieillot, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pitta Vieillot, 1816.

  Type species:

   Pitta brachyura (Linnaeus, 1766) (= Corvus brachyurus Linnaeus) by subsequent designation, see Mayr, E. 1979. Family Pittidae. pp. 310-329 in Traynor, M.A. Jr (ed.). Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. 8 xv + 365 pp. [310] (= Turdus triostegus Sparrman, 1786).
• Coloburis Cabanis & Heine, 1860.

  Type species:

   Pitta srepitans Temminck, 1825 by subsequent designation, see Salvadori, T. 1881. Ornithologiae della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Turin : T. Salvadori Vol. 2. [377].
• Cervinipitta Elliot, D.G. 1870. Remarks on some lately-described Pittae, with a synopsis of the Family as now known. Ibis 2 6: 408-421 [Date published Apr 1870] [413].

  Type species:

   Turdus moluccensis Müller, 1776 by monotypy.
• Pulchripitta Elliot, D.G. 1895. A Monograph of the Pittidae, or Family of Ant-Thrushes. New York : B. Quaritch xxiii pp. [Date published Jan 1895] [xviii].

  Type species:

   Pitta iris Gould, 1842 by monotypy.
• Austropitta Mathews, 1913.

  Type species:

   Pitta strepitans Temminck, 1825 by original designation (= Pitta versicolor Swainson, 1825).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU) ; NT, WA: Central Arnhem (CA)

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	PASSERIFORMES	10-Mar-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)