Species Prionodura newtoniana De Vis, 1883

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prionodura newtoniana De Vis, C.W. 1883. Description of two new birds of Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 7(4): 561-563 [Date published Apr 1883] [562].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM immature ♂, Qld: Tully River Scrubs.

  Secondary source:

   De Vis, C.W. 1889. Annual report of the Curator to the Trustees of the Queensland Museum. In 'Queensland Museum'. Queensland Parliamentary Papers C.A. 17-1889. Government Printer: Brisbane. 11pp. 1-2 pp. [1] (loss of holotype of Prionodura newtoniana, specimen stolen from museum in 1888).
• Corymbicola mestoni De Vis, C.W. 1889. A new bird. The Queenslander. 600 pp. [600].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM O.15313 ♂, Qld: Mt Bartle Frere.
• Prionodura newtoniana fairfaxi Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [133].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 679468 unknown, Qld: Mt Bartle Frere.

 

Generic Combinations

• Amblyornis newtonianus (De Vis, 1883). —
  Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [179]

 

Introduction

This species is sometimes placed in the genus Amblyornis following Kusmierski et al. (1997) but this placement is not widely recognised and we retain the species in the monotypic genus Prionodura until further studies can elucidate relationships between the two genera.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Endemic to the Atherton Tablelands and adjoining highlands.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Subtropical rainforest.

 

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [179] (merged Prionodura within Amblyornis, following Kumierski et al. 1997)

Kusmierski, R., Borgia, G., Uy, A. & Crozier, R.H. 1997. Labile evolution of display traits in bowerbirds indicates reduced effects of phylogenetic constraint. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 264(1380): 307-313

 

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. (Golden Bowerbird)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	11-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PASSERIFORMES	01-Oct-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)