Species Poodytes carteri (North, 1900)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eremiornis carteri North, A.J. 1900. Description of a new bird from North-west Australia. Victorian Naturalist 17(4): 78-79 [Date published 9 Aug 1900] [79].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM O.11836 adult ♀, WA: Northwest Cape, near Exmouth Gulf.
• Ewremiornis carteri assimilis Montague, P.D. 1913. New subspecies of birds from the Montebello Islands, N.-W.A. Austral Avian Records 1(8): 181 [Date published 20 Mar 1913] [181].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1913.5.20.24 adult unsexed (two other syntypes also in BMNH, see Warren & Harrison 1971: 38)), WA: Hermite Island, Monte Bello Group.
• Eremiornis carteri rogersi Mathews, G.M. 1913. Additions and corrections to my Reference List, Addenda. Austral Avian Records 1(8): 187-194 [Date published Jan.] [192].
• Eremiornis carteri queenslandicus Mathews, G.M. & Neumann, O. 1939. Six new races of Australian birds from North Queensland. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 59: 153-156 [154].

 

Generic Combinations

• Megalurus carteri (North, 1900). —
  Alström, P., Fregin, S., Norman, J.A., Ericson, P.G.P., Christidis, L. & Olsson, U. 2011. Multilocus analysis of a taxonomically densely sampled dataset reveal extensive non-monophyly in the avian family Locustellidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58: 513-526 [516, 521]
• Poodytes carteri (North, 1900). —
  Dickinson, E.C. & Christidis, L. (Eds) 2014. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Passerines. Eastbourne : Aves Press Vol. 2 4, pp.lii + 752.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Patchily distributed, primarily from coastal WA eastward between 19° S and 26° S to west and central QLD,

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Rocky hummock grassfield.

 

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. (Spinifexbird)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Oct-2022	AVES	10-Oct-2022	MOVED
10-Nov-2020	AVES	07-Jul-2020	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)