Species Rhipidura (Rhipidura) fuliginosa (Sparrman, 1787)

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Extra Distribution Information

The species is extinct in Australia. The Lord Howe Fantail became extinct between 1924 and 1928

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, human habitation, subtropical rainforest.

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Muscicapa fuliginosa fuliginosa Sparrman, 1787

Muscicapa fuliginosa Sparrman, A. (1787). Museum Carlsonianum, in quo novas et selectas aves, coloribus ad vivum brevique descriptione illustratas, suasu et sumtibus generosissimi possessoris, exhibet Andreas Sparrman. Holmiae : Typographia Regia Vol. 1 fasc. 100 pl. pp. [no. 47 and pl.].

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [197] (discuss the R. fuliginosa-albiscapa group, commenting that current assignmment of names may be unsatisfactory)

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. (New Zealand Fantail)

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