Subspecies Rhipidura (Sauloprocta) leucophrys melaleuca (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Muscipeta melaleuca 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] [180].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Restricted to Torres Straits islands in Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea
  • Bismarck Archipelago
• Solomon Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, casuarina-cypress woodland, chenopodiaceous steppe, dry sclerophyll forest, eremic riverine woodland, human habitation, lignum or cane grass swamp, low sclerophyll heath, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mangrove or mangal, mulga woodland, paperbark woodland, rocky hummock grassfield, samphire salt marsh, sand-plain hummock grassfield, temperate eucalypt, tropical eucalypt, tussock grassland.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)