Taxonomic and nomenclatural implications of a review of the Pied Currawong Strepera graculina in southern Victoria

2017/01/01 by Peter Menkhorst, Craig Morley · 1 citation
Environmental Science · #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Avian ecology and behavior #Geography #Zoology #Biology #Genealogy #History

paper · doi:10.20938/afo34127128

openalex publication_date 2017/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

Abstract

In a review of knowledge about subspecies of the Pied Currawong in southern Victoria and far south-eastern South Australia, Menkhorst & Morley (2017) hypothesised that the type specimen of Strepera graculina ashbyi Mathews 1913 might be an immature female of the population currently recognized as S. g. nebulosa Schodde and Mason 1999. If this hypothesis is correct, there are nomenclatural consequences, which we detail here. We also retract the suggestion that neotypes should be defined for the subspecies concerned.

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