Genus Trichoglossus Stephens, 1826

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• Trichoglossus Stephens, J.F. 1826. In, General Zoology or Systematic Natural History, commenced by the late George Shaw, M.D.F.R.S. & C. Aves. London : J. & A. Arch etc. Vol. XIV Pt I 385 pp. pls 1-41. [published late 1826] [129] [Validated as correct name with above authorship, place of publication and below-cited type species by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Direction 82, with gender masculine. Attributed to Vigor & Horsfield (1825) and first published as a nom. nud. by Vigors 1825 thus there unavailable under IZCN Art. 12. Trichoglossus Stephens is itself based on Vigors & Horsfield (1827) and its authorship is commonly attributed to Vigors & Horsfield, see Salvadori (1891), Peters (1940), Condon (1975), Wolters (1975), but priority and authorship corrected in Mathews (1916, 1919). Stephens prior use of Trichoglossus is made available by both diagnosis and his including under it seven nominal species, as pointed out by Mathews (loc. cit.), see ICZN Art. 12(b)(5). Whatever the generic concept of Stephens, Psittacus haematopus (=haematotus) Gmelin, 1788 (=Psittacus haematodus Linnaeus, 1771, by reference) was among the included names and available for selection as type species, see ICZN Art. 69(a)(i) cf. Opinion 67 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. See references in Introduction.].

  Type species:

   Psittacus haematodes Linnaeus, 1771 by subsequent designation, see Lesson, R.P. 1828. Manuel d' Ornithologie, ou Description des Genres et des principales Espèces d'Oiseaux. Paris : Roret Vol. 2 448 pp. [147].
• Trichoglossus Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [287] [junior homonym of Trichoglossus Stephens, 1826 by Direction 82 of International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, but date of publication as cited (1826) is incorrect].

  Type species:

   Psittacus haematodes Linnaeus, 1771 by subsequent designation, see Gray, G.R. 1840. A List of the Genera of Birds, with an indication of the typical species of each genus. London : R. & J.E. Taylor viii 80 pp. [Date published Apr 1840: published before Apr.] [51].
• Australasia Lesson, R.P. 1830. Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux. Paris : F.G. Levrault Vol. 1 xxxii 659 pp., Vol. 2 (Atlas) xii 119. [Date published July 1830: Livr. 3, July 1830, dated 1831; Livr. 6 published 1831] [209] [livr. 3; also spelt Australia by Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus Generum Avium. Tom. I. Lugduni, Batavorum : E.J. Brill 543 pp. [published June] (3)].

  Type species:

   Australasia novaehollandiae Lesson, 1830 by subsequent designation, see Salvadori, T. 1880. Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Parte Prima. Torino : G.B. Paravia & Co. xii 573 pp. [279] (=Trichoglossus haematodus moluccanus (Gmelin, 1788)).
• Eutelipsitta Mathews, G.M. 1911. On some necessary alterations in the nomenclature of birds. Pt II. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 1-22 [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55–62] [10] [published without description but based by reference on Psittacus chlorolepidotus Kuhl, 1820, and available under ICZN Art. 12(b)(5); introduced for that nominal species to replace Psitteuteles Bonaparte, 1854, a name transferred to another group of lorikeets by subsequent designation of type species, see Mathews in original description of Eutelipsitta Mathews, 1911].

  Type species:

   Psittacus chlorolepidotus Kuhl, 1820 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp. [108-109]

Introduction

Christidis and Boles (2008: 153) do not recognise the species T. rubritorquis, but see their discussion on p. 153 re T. haematodus complex. Since these authors state that '… there is a case for recognising further species …', T. rubritorquis is retained here for the present.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

PSITTACIDAE: Trichoglossus haematodus capistratus (Bechstein, 1811)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Lesser Sundas, Moluccas and Papuasia, east to Vanuatu and New Caledonia, north to the Admiralty Ils and Ponapé in the Carolines, and west to Bali, Sulawesi and the Philippines.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Warren (WAR) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Mulga Lands (ML) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Gawler (GAW)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [153]

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (synonymy; Australian taxa)

Forshaw, J.M. 1978. Parrots of the World. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 616 pp. 158 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 1. pp. 1-104 pls 275-282. [Date published 22 Nov. 1916: publication dated as 1916–1917] [9-12]

Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385-499 + xii pls 363-370 Appendixes A & B. [Date published 12 June 1919: publication dated as from preface, 12 June 1919 given in Appendix B]

Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp. [140]

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

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. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Vigors, N.A. 1825. Sketches in ornithology; or, observations on the leading affinities of some of the more extensive groups of birds. Zoological Journal London 2: 368-405 [400]

Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1825. In Proceedings of meeting of the Zoological Club of the Linnean Society, May 10, 1925. Zoological Journal London 2: 281 [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440]

Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [287]

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; except for inclusion of Psitteuteles iris (Temminck, 1835))

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