Genus Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, 1820

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• Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, H. 1820. Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie. Abth. 1. Frankfurt-am-Main. [150].

  Type species:

   Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus Kuhl, 1820 by monotypy.
• Kitta Temminck, C.J. in Temminck, C.J. & Laugier de Chartrouse, M. 1826. Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux Planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris : G. Levrault Vol. 4. [Date published 12 Jul 1826] [pl. 395].

  Type species:

   Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus Kuhl, 1820 by original designation (= Pyrrhocorax violaceus Vieillot, 1816).
• Ptilonorhinchus Kaup, J.J. 1844. Classification der Säugethiere und Vögel. Darmstadt : C.W. Leske x 144 pp. [presumed incorrect subsequent spelling of Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, 1820, and unavailable].
• Ptilonorynchus Swainson, W. 1836. On the Natural History and Classification of Birds. In, Lardner, D. (ed.). The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor Vol. 1 viii+361 pp. [39] [presumed incorrect subsequent spelling of Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, 1820, and unavailable].
• Ptilorhynchus Temminck, C.J. in Temminck, C.J. & Laugier de Chartrouse, M. 1826. Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux Planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris : G. Levrault 66 livr. in 5 vols pp. [pl. color., 2, explan. pl. 395] [published 12 July 1826; presumed incorrect subsequent spelling of Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, 1820, and unavailable].
• Ptilorhynchus Swainson, W. 1837. On the Natural History and Classification of Birds. In, Lardner, D. (ed.). The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor Vol. 2(92) vi 398 pp. [publication dated 1836-1837 Kluge, A.G. 1971. John Edward Gray and "The Zoological Miscellany". In Gray, J.E. (1831–1844). The Zoological Miscellany. [reprint]. U.S.A. Misc. Publ. of Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.] [presumed unjustified emendation of Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, 1820].
• Calodera Gould, J. 1837. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [publication dated 1837–1838, Pt 2, Jan. (=Apr.) 1837] [pl. 6] [published January 1837; junior homonym of Calodera Mannerheim, 1831 (Coleoptera)].

  Type species:

   Calodera maculata Gould, 1837 by subsequent designation, see Sharpe, R.B. 1881. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae. Part 3. Containing the first portion of the Family Timeliidae (Babbling-Thrushes). London : British Museum Vol. 6 xiii + 420 pp. [388].
• Callidera Agassiz, L. 1846. Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymiis plantarum, nec non variis adnotationibus et emendationibus. Soloduri [= Solothurn, Switzerland] : Jent & Gassmann viii 393 pp. [published between 1846–1848] [58] [presumed unjustified emendation of Calodera Gould, 1837].
• Rogersornis Mathews, G.M. 1912. New generic names for Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 1: 105-117 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [117].

  Type species:

   Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis Jardine & Selby, 1830 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

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