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Subspecies Platycercus (Platycercus) elegans subadelaidae Mathews, 1912

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Subspecies Platycercus (Platycercus) elegans subadelaidae Mathews, 1912

  • Platycercus elegans subadelaidae Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [270].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 622676 ♂ (G.M. Mathew's coll. no. 9896), Gum Creek, northeast of Port Augusta, Flinders Range, SA (as Port Augusta)
    Comment: for identification of holotype and type locality, see Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1–306.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Centred in S Flinders Range, from Mt Zion north to Buckaringa Hill, west to middle Mambray Creek and east to Laura, upper Willochra Creek and Quorn. Intergrades further southwards with P. e. fleurieuensis Ashby, 1917 throughout the Mt Lofty Range and its flanks west to the E Adelaide Plains, east to the W Murray Mallee as far as Florieton, Sutherlands, Wongulla and Murray Bridge area, and south to the Bungala-Inman-Hindmarsh River valleys; also intergrades with P. e. flaveolus Gould, 1837 along lower Marne River.


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

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, florivore, folivore, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, sedentary, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds mainly on seeds arboreally (Eucalyptus) and also on ground, often flocks in small groups (particularly immatures), flies in shallow undulations bringing wings in to side of body, nests on bed of wood dust/debris in tree hollows, incubation by female, both sexes rear pale grey-downed, yellowish-billed chicks, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

 

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)
10-Nov-2020 01-Mar-2012 MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020 28-Feb-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)