A question for cockatoo people with taxonomic knowledge.
Would someone advise and / or confirm that there are currently three subspecies of Glossy Black-Cockatoo recognised? I ask this because Christidis & Boles (2008) appears to provide no details on subspecies.
HANZAB indicates the subspecies as one for Kangaroo Island, another for south central Queensland and the final one coastal se Queensland down to far eastern Victoria. It is this last one I am interested in.
Is its taxonomy now known as
Calyptorhynchus lathami
or
Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami (as indicated by pre-Christidis and Boles 2008 references on this group)
cheers, Martin
Martin O’Brien Wildlife Biologist – Threatened Species & Communities Section Department of Sustainability and Environment 2/8 Nicholson St., East Melbourne 3002 VICTORIA
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Clements 2009, Version 6.4:
Calyptorhynchus lathami erebus: E Australia (coastal e-central Queensland) Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami: Inland and coastal e Australia Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus: Kangaroo I. (South Australia)
Cheers,
Nikolas
—————- Nikolas Haass nhaass@yahoo.com Sydney, NSW