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Amytornis textilis carteri Mathews, 1917

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Diaphorillas textilis carteri by Mathews, 1917

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 28 October 1916 (specimen)

 

Distribution

Dirk Hartog Island, Western Australia, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Mathews, G. M. (1917). The re-discovery of two lost birds. Austral Avian Record 3: 25-68. 


Other references:

Black, Andrew B. (2011). Western Australia, home of the Grass-Wren (Amytornis textilis). Western Australian Journal of Ornithology 3: 1-12.

Black, Andrew B. and Gower, P. (2017). Grasswrens: Australian Outback Identities. Stepney: Axiom Publishing. 153 pp.

Black, Andrew B., Jansen, Justin J. F. J., Frahnert, Sylke and Johansson, Ulf S. (2019). Provisional identification of historical grasswren (Amytornis: Maluridae) specimens in European collections draws attention to the incomplete phylogeny of the group. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 139(3): 228-237.

Carter, T. and Mathews, G. M. (1917). The birds of Dirk Hartog Island and Peron Peninsula, Shark Bay, Western Australia, 1916-17. Ibis 59: 564-611.

Jeremy J. Austin, Leo Joseph, Lynn P. Pedler, Andrew B. Black. (2013). Uncovering cryptic evolutionary diversity in extant and extinct populations of the southern Australian arid zone Western and Thick-billed Grasswrens (Passeriformes: Maluridae: Amytornis). Conservation Genetics 14(6): 1173-1184.

del Hoyo, J. & Collar, N.J. (2016): HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions. Barcelona.

Woinarski, John C. Z., Legge, Sarah M. and Garnett, Stephen T. (2024). Extinct Australian birds: numbers, characteristics, lessons and prospects. Emu 124(1): 8-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2023.2240345

 

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