Subspecies Platycercus (Platycercus) elegans nigrescens Ramsay, 1888

Museums

Regional Maps

• Platycercus pennantii nigrescens Ramsay, E.P. 1888. Tabular List of all the Australian Birds at present known to the author, showing the Distribution of the Species over the continent of Australia and adjacent islands. Sydney : E.P. Ramsay 38 pp. [34] [as Platycercus pennantii var. nigrescens; for identification of type material, see Hindwood, K.A. 1946. A list of the types and paratypes of birds from Australian localities in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 386–393; Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technichal Report of the Australian Museum n 4: 1–42; three specimens were measured in the orginal description but not designated; judged by Ramsay's observation 'back … almost all black', they are the three non-green backed adults out of the four potential type specimens in AM: one of the adults alone was cited as type by Hindwood, K.A. 1946. A list of the types and paratypes of birds from Australian localities in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 386–393, effecting lectotypification under ICZN Art. 74(a) & (b)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM 0.195, Bellenden Ker Range, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) AM 0.1950; AM 0.1952; AM 0.1952.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Hindwood, K.A. 1946. A list of the types and paratypes of birds from Australian localities in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 386-393.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Subcoastal tablelands of NE QLD, above 500 m altitude, north to Windsor Tableland, south to the Seaview and Paluma Ranges, and inland to the Herberton Range and Ravenshoe.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, florivore, folivore, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, sedentary, tall forest, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds primarily on seeds in canopy of rainforest edges and eucalypt forest, 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

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)