Subspecies Lonchura (Munia) castaneothorax castaneothorax (Gould, 1837)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amadina castaneothorax Gould, J. 1837. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [publication dated 1837–1838, Pt 2, Jan. (=Apr.) 1837] [pl. 21].

  Type data:

   Holotype (type lost from King's College, England), locality unknown.
• Weebongia albiventer Lesson, R.P. 1845. Description de sept espèces d'oiseaux. Écho du Monde Savant, 12th year, No. 13. 294-297 pp. [295].
• Donacola bivittata Reichenbach, H.G.L. 1862. Die Singvögel. (in 3 parts). Dresden Vol. 1. [dated as published in 1862-1863, but appearing in Pts VI-VIII of the Central Atlas of Reichenbach's Vollständigste Naturgeschichte des In- und Aus-landes, and thus before Pts IX and X in 1862] [28].
• Munia castaneothorax assimilis Mathews, G.M. 1910. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, Nov 16, 1910. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 27: 28 [28].
• Munia castaneothorax apsleyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [52].
• Munia castaneothorax gangi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [430].
• Lonchura thorpei Mathews, G.M. 1913. New species and subspecies of Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 2: 73-79 [published Dec.] [78].
• Donacola castaneothorax northi Mathews, G.M. 1923. Additions and Corrections to my Lists of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 5: 33-44 [Date published 21 Feb 1923] [40].
• Donacola lepidothorax Cayley, N.W. 1926. A new Australian Finch. The Scaly-chested Finch, Donacola lepidothorax. The Emu 25(3): 133 [Date published 11 Feb 1926] [133] [based on a live aviary bird].
• Donacola lipidothorax Mathews, G.M. 1930. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. Pt 2 pp. London : British Ornithologists' Union pp. 427-1048. [839] [unjustified emendation of Donacola lepidothorax Cayley, 1926, but unavailable as never treated as valid: ICdZN Art. 11.5,6].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), 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), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Lignum or cane grass swamp, paperbark woodland, tropical eucalypt, tussock grassland.

 

History of changes

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