Species profile
Lonchura thorpei
Lonchura thorpei
Quick answer
Mathews (1913 c: 78) described this species, apparently based on a female collected on the Fitzroy River, northwest Australia, on 17 May 1913. It is included in the synonymy of Lonchura castaneothorax assimilis in Mayr et al. (1968: 384 – 385), and all Australian populations are included in the nominate subspecies by Schodde and Mason (1999: 771 – 772). No specimen from the Fitzroy River came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Lonchura thorpei
- Family
- Estrildidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Lonchura
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