Platycercus icterotis

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Platycercus icterotis (Kuhl, 1820) • Platycercus icterotis (Temminck & Kuhl, 1820) • Platycerus icterotis • Platycerus icterotis (Kuhl • Platycerus icterotis (Kuhl, 1820) • Platycerus icterotis (Temminck & Kuhl, 1820) • Platycerus icterotis (Temminck & Kuhl

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 23-Jan-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Platycercus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 16 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. adelaidae (Adelaide Rosella) · P. adscitus (White-Cheeked Rosella) · P. barnardi (Oustalet's Swiftlet) · P. barnardi barnardi (Mallee Ringneck) · P. caledonicus (Green Rosella) · P. caledonicus caledonicus (Green Rosella) · P. elegans (Crimson Rosella) · P. elegans elegans (Crimson Rosella) · P. eximius (Eastern Rosella) · P. flaveolus (Yellow Rosella) · P. icterotis (Western Rosella) · P. icterotis icterotis (Western Rosella) · P. venustus (Northern Rosella) · P. venustus venustus (Northern Rosella) · P. zonarius (Port Lincoln Ringneck) · P. zonarius zonarius (Port Lincoln Ringneck)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 461.
• A dictionary of birds, by Alfred Newton, assisted by Hans Gadow, with contributions from Richard Lydekker. .. Charles S. Roy. .. and Robert W. Shufeldt. .. London, A. and C. Black, 1893-1896. url p. 796.
• A list of the birds of Australia: containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author / London: Witherby, 1913. url p. 133, p. 430, p. 450.
• Annual report of the New York Zoological Society. New York: The Society, 1897- url p. 105, p. 105, p. 159.
• Austral avian record; a scientific journal devoted primarily to the study of the Australian avifauna. London: Witherby. url p. 85.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 225.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 123 1961 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 408.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 554.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. url p. 18.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 18.
• Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, 1891. url p. 258.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 261.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 188, p. 189, p. 190, p. 239.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 129, p. 88.
• Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Sydney, F. W. White, Printer.1889. url .
• Foreign birds for cage and aviary. By Arthur G. Butler London, "The Feathered world"[191-?] url p. 226.
• Handbook to The birds of Australia. By John Gould. LondonPub. by the author, 1865. url p. 58, p. 58.
• How to sex cage birds (British and foreign), London, "The Feathered world", "Canary and cage-bird life"[1907] url p. 136.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 127, p. 163, p. 193, p. 520, p. 626, p. 714, p. 715, p. 782.
• Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. Oxford [etc.]Royal Microscopical Society. url p. 138.
• List of the specimens of birds in the collection of the British Museum / [by G. R. Gray.] London: printed by the order of the Trustees, 1844-1867. url p. 6.
• List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. London: Printed for the Society, 1896. url p. 363, p. 363.
• List of vertebrated animals living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. .. London, Printed for the Society, 1866. url p. 106.
• Nature. London, Macmillan. url p. 229, p. 397.
• Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon, by Archibald James Campbell. ... With map, 28 coloured plates and 131 photographic illustrations. Sheffield, Printed for the author by Pawson & Brailsford, 1901. url p. 30, p. 638.
• Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 58.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 1002, p. 129, p. 312, p. 499, p. 688, p. 728, p. 764, p. 764.
• Report of the Australian Association for the advancement of Science. Sidney, The Association. url p. 145.
• Revised list of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological society of London. 1872. London, Printed for the Society, [1872] url p. 191.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 40.
• Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 29, p. 43.
• The Australian zoologist. Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales url p. 368.
• The Avicultural magazine. Ascot, Berkshire, etc.: Avicultural Society, etc. url p. 169, p. 201.
• The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1901- url p. 107, p. 129, p. 163, p. 19, p. 225, p. 32, p. 6, p. 60, p. 77.
• The birds of Australia, London [etc.]Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1911. url , , .
• The collected scientific papers of the late William Alexander Forbes, Edited by F. E. Beddard. With a preface by P. L. Sclater. London, R.H. Porter, 1885. url p. 11, p. 6.
• The history of the collections contained in the natural history departments of the British Museum. by R. Bowdler Sharpe. London, 1906. url p. 414.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Nature Conservancy Council url p. 112.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2004. Platycercus icterotis. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2009. Platycercus icterotis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:

• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10522
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-714295
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2480765
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554875
• IUCN ID: 233559
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 148557

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