Species profile
Austrartamus melanops
Austrartamus melanops
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 665020, adult male, collected at Normanton, 17.40 S, 141.05 E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 29 November 1913, by Robin Kemp (no. 3542). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Austrartamus melanops
- Family
- Passeridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Austrartamus
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