Subspecies Pomatostomus (Pomatostomus) temporalis rubeculus (Gould, 1840)

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• Pomatorhinus rubeculus Gould, J. 1840. Letter to Chairman of the Scientific Committee, Zoological Society of London, read before meeting of the Society of Oct. 8, 1839. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1839: 139-145 [Date published Mar 1840: publication dated 1839] [144].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 17196 ♂, NT: Port Essington.
• Pomatorhinus temporalis nigrescens Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [335].
• Pomatostomus innominatus Mathews, G.M. 1924. Supplements to the birds of Australia. Supplement 3. London : Witherby pp. vii-viii + 157-244. [223].
• Pomatorhinus temporalis intermedius Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [335].
• Pomatorhinus temporalis bamba Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [43].
• Pomatostomus temporalis mountfordae Deignan, H.G. 1950. A tentative revision of the Australian races of the Grey-crowned Babbler, Pomatostomus temporalis (Vigors & Horsfield), with descriptions of two new subspecies. The Emu 50: 17-21 [Date published Jul 1950] [19].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM O.38791 adult ♂ (formerly USNM 406004), NT: Ambukwamba, Groote Eylandt.
  Paratype(s) USNM 406006 adult ♂ (two other paratypes in USNM), NT: Ambukwamba, Groote Eylandt.
• Pomatostomus temporalis browni Deignan, H.G. 1950. A tentative revision of the Australian races of the Grey-crowned Babbler, Pomatostomus temporalis (Vigors & Horsfield), with descriptions of two new subspecies. The Emu 50: 17-21 [Date published Jul 1950] [20].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM O.38790 adult ♂ (formerly USNM 406009), NT: Cape Arnhem Peninsula, between Yirrkala and Melville Island.
  Paratype(s) USNM 406007 adult ♀, NT: Cape Arnhem Peninsula, between Yirrkala and Melville Island; USNM (another paratype in USNM), NT: Cape Arnhem Peninsula, between Yirrkala and Melville Island.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, eremic riverine woodland, mulga woodland, paperbark woodland, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)