Species Plectorhyncha lanceolata Gould, 1838

Museums

Regional Maps

• Plectorhyncha lanceolata Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [Pt 3, published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] [Pt iv, pl. 70].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) LFM D.5290 unsexed, New South Wales; ANSP 18495 ♂, Tasmania
  Comment: two other specimens in the BM(NH) and three in ANSP, see Wagstaffe 1978: 22.

  Secondary source:

   Wagstaffe, R. 1978. Type Specimens of Birds in the Merseyside County Museums. Liverpool : Merseyside County Museums, Merseyside County Council 33 pp. [22] (distribution of other syntypes).
• Plectorhyncha lanceolata neglecta Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [395].
• Plectorhyncha lanceolata gabrielae Mathews, G.M. & Neumann, O. 1939. Six new races of Australian birds from North Queensland. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 59: 153-156 [155].
• Plectorhyncha lanceolata queenslandicus Mathews, G.M. 1939. A new race of Honey-eater from Queensland. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 59(424): 156 [Date published 21 Jul 1939] [156].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1925.11.1.692 ♂, Qld: Talwood.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, eremic riverine woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, paperbark woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

 

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. (Striped Honeyeater)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020		30-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)