Inland thornbill

Inland Thornbill
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Genus: Acanthiza
Species:
A. apicalis
Binomial name
Acanthiza apicalis
Gould, 1847

The inland thornbill (Acanthiza apicalis) was originally described by English ornithologist John Gould in The Birds of Australia.[1] Inland thornbills are within the order passerines.[2] The inland thornbill belongs to the genus Acanthiza, which now has three more species than the eleven outlined by Gould in The Birds of Australia.[1] The Noongar people of southwestern Western Australia call A. apicalis "Djoobi-Djoolbang".[3] The inland thornbill is also known as the broad-tail thornbill and presently contains several subspecies that were once considered independent species.[4] The word apicalis comes from the Latin for 'tipped'.[4]

Acanthiza apicalis plate from Birds of Australia (Gould)[5]
  1. ^ a b Gould, Elizabeth; Gould, John; Richter, Henry Constantine (1840). The birds of Australia. London: Printed by R. and J. E. Taylor; pub. by the author. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.105698.
  2. ^ Schodde, Richard (1999). The directory of Australian birds. Volume 1, Passerines : a taxonomic and zoogeographic atlas of the biodiversity of birds in Australia and its territories. Ian J. Mason. Collingwood, VIC: CSIRO Pub. ISBN 978-0-643-10086-2. OCLC 704565413.
  3. ^ "Inland Thornbill • ReWild Perth". ReWild Perth. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  4. ^ a b Cayley, Neville W. (1987). What bird is that?. Terence Lindsey (Rev., expanded, deluxe ed.). Sydney: Angus & Robertson. ISBN 0-207-15556-9. OCLC 156806692.
  5. ^ Gould, John (1848). "Acanthiza apicalis, Gould., Western Acanthiza, [Pl. 57]". The Birds of Australia. 3. doi:10.5962/p.313088.