Genus Purpureicephalus Bonaparte, 1854

Museums

Regional Maps

• Purpureicephalus Bonaparte, C.L. 1854. Tableau des perroquets. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2 6: 145-158 [153] [published without description but based by reference on Platycercus pileatus Vigors, 1830 and available under ICZN Art. 12(b)(5)].

  Type species:

   Platycercus pileatus Vigors, 1830 by monotypy (=Purpureicephalus spurius (Kuhl, 1820)).
• Purpureocephalus Reichenow, A. 1881. Conspectus Psittacorum. Systematische Uebersicht aller bekannten Papageienarten. Journal of Ornithology 29: 1-49, 113-177, 225-289, 337-398 [125] [unjustified emendation of Purpureicephalus Bonaparte, 1854].
• Porphyreicephalus Reichenow, A. 1883. Systematische verzeichniss aller bekannten Papageien, zugleich index der abgebildeten und beschriebenen arten. In, Vogelbilder aus fernen Zonen. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Papageien. Kassel : T. Fisher. 33 pls plus suppl. [publication dated as 1878–1883] [1] [as subgenus; nom. nov. for Purpureicephalus Bonaparte, 1854 and treated here as an unjustified emendation, as customary, see ICZN Art 33(b)—may nevertheless be interpreted as an incorrect subsequent spelling under ICZN Art. 33(c); subsequently spelt Porphyrocephalus by Heine, F. & Reichenow, A. 1890. Nomenclator Musei Heineani Ornithologici. Berlin : R. Friedländer & Sohn Bd vi 373 pp. [publication dated as 1882–1890] (241)].
• Porphyrocephalus Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. [556] [unjustified emendation of Purpureicephalus Bonaparte, 1854].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [192] (based on Condon, H.T. 1941. The Australian broadtailed parrots (subfamily Platycercinae). Records of the South Australian Museum 7: 117–144)

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

General References

Cain, A.J. 1955. A revision of Trichoglossus haematodus and of the Australian platycercine parrots. Ibis 97: 432-479 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement grouping Purpureicephalus Bonaparte, 1854 with New Caledonian Eunymphicus Peters, 1937)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (synonymy)

Immelmann, K. 1966. Die australischen Plattschweifsittiche. Wittenberg, Lutherstadt : A. Ziemsen (Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei) 128 pp. (synonymy)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (synonymy)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (synonymy)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (synonymy)

 

History of changes

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10-Nov-2020		28-Feb-2012	MODIFIED
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