Species Trichoglossus moluccanus (Gmelin, 1788)

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Introduction

Trichoglossus moluccanus (Gmelin, 1788) is split from Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771) based on various sources including del Hoyo & Collar (2014) Braun et al. (2017) Smith et al. (2020) Joseph et al. (2020)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Australia from south of Cape York along east coast, mostly east of the Great Dividing Range, then west through southern VIC to southeast SA, also TAS and an introduced population in Perth and surrounds

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Gawler (GAW) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Braun, M.P., Reinschmidt, M., Datzmann, T., Waugh, D., Zamora, R., Häbich, A., Neves, L., Gerlach, H., Arndt, T., Mettke-Hofmann, C., Sauer-Gürth, H. & Wink, M. 2017. Influences of oceanic islands and the Pleistocene on the biogeography and evolution of two groups of Australasian parrots (Aves: Psittaciformes: Eclectus roratus, Trichoglossus haematodus complex). Rapid evolution and implications for taxonomy and conservation. European Journal of Ecology 3(2): 47-66

del Hoyo, J. & Collar, N.J. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International illustrated checklist of the birds of the world. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Barcelona : Lynx Edicions pp. 903. [746]

Joseph, L., Merwin, J. & Smith, B.T. 2020. Improved systematics of lorikeets reflects their evolutionary history and frames conservation priorities. Emu - Austral Ornithology 120(3): 201-215

Schweizer, M., Wright, T.F., Peñalba, J.V., Schirtzinger, E. & Joseph, L. 2015. Molecular phylogenetics suggests a New Guinean origin and frequent episodes of founder-event speciation in the nectarivorous lories and lorikeets (Aves: Psittaciformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 90: 34-48

Smith, B. T., Mauck, W. M., Benz, B., & Andersen, M. J. 2020. Uneven missing data skew phylogenomic relationships within the lories and lorikeets. Genome Biology and Evolution 12(7): 1131-1147

 

History of changes

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