Species Quoyornis georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Muscicapa georgiana Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. in Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1830. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les anneés 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 1 i 268 pp. [no month of publication] [175].
• Eopsaltria leucogaster Gould, J. 1846. Descriptions of eleven new species of Australian birds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1846: 18-21 [Date published July 1911: published May] [19].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 15217 adult ♀, Western Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) ANSP 15215 adult ♂, WA: King George Sound; ANSP 15216 adult ♂, WA: King George Sound.
• Quoyornis georgianus warreni Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [59].
• Eopsaltria leucogastra Gadow, H. 1883. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds in the collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae: Part V containing the families Paridae and Laniidae (Titmice and Shrikes) and Certhiomorphae (Creepers & Nuthatches). London : British Museum Vol. 8 xiii 385 pp. [181] [unjustified emendation of Eopsaltria leucogaster Gould, 1846].

 

Generic Combinations

• Quoyornis georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830). —
  Christidis, L., Irestedt, M., Rowe, D., Boles, W.E. & Norman, J.A. 2011. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogenies reveal a complex evolutionary history in the Australasian robins (Passeriformes: Petroicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 726-738 [734]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southwest WA

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, low sclerophyll heath, wet sclerophyll forest.

 

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. (White-breasted Robin)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	09-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)