Subspecies Ptilotula flavescens flavescens (Gould, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ptilotis flavescens 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 18558 adult unsexed, Australia: north-west.
• Ptilotis flavescens wyndhami Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [411].
• Ptilotis flavescens zanda Mathews, G.M. 1913. New species and subspecies of Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 2: 73-79 [published Dec.] [77].
• Meliphaga fusca deserticola Salomonsen, F. 1966. Preliminary descriptions of new honey-eaters (Aves, Meliphagidae). Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 254: 1-12 [6].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 695517 adult ♂, WA: Margaret River, Kimberley Division.

 

Generic Combinations

• Lichenostomus flavescens flavescens (Gould, 1840).
• Ptilotula flavescens flavescens (Gould, 1840). —
  Nyári, A.S. & Joseph, L. 2011. Systematic dismantlement of Lichenostomus improves the basis for understanding relationships within the honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) and the historical development of Australo-Papuan bird communities. Emu 111: 202–211

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Excludes Tiwi Ils.

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), 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), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Eremic riverine woodland, tropical eucalypt.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	PASSERIFORMES	02-Apr-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
10-Nov-2020		04-Feb-2013	MOVED
10-Nov-2020		30-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)