Petroica [multicolor, pusilla or polymorpha] (Norfolk or Pacific Robin)

Norfolk or Pacific Robin

Petroica [multicolor, pusilla or polymorpha] (= Petroica multicolor) (Gmelin, JF 1789)

The Norfolk robin, also known as the Norfolk Island scarlet robin or Norfolk Island robin, is a small bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. It is endemic to Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand. Source: Wikipedia

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Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Petroicidae
Genus:
   Petroica
Scientific:
  Petroica multicolor

Original description

Citation:
(Gmelin, JF 1789)

Reference:
Systema Naturae ed. 13, vol. 1, part 2 1 pt2 p.944

Protonym:
Muscicapa multicolor

Type locality:
Norfolk Island.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10286#page/445/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
840BFE3AED8D7715

Avibase ID:
avibase-840BFE3A

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/840BFE3A

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 561942

Geographic range:

Petroica multicolor: Norfolk Island
Petroica pusilla pusilla: Samoa (Upolu and Savai'i)
Petroica pusilla similis: Vanuatu (Aneityum)
Petroica pusilla tannensis: Vanuatu (Tanna)
Petroica pusilla feminina: Vanuatu (Efate and Mai)
Petroica pusilla cognata: Vanuatu (Erromanga Island)
Petroica pusilla ambrynensis: Vanuatu and Banks Group
Petroica pusilla soror: Vanua Lava (Banks Group)
Petroica pusilla kleinschmidti: Fiji (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu)
Petroica pusilla taveunensis: Taveuni (Fiji)
Petroica pusilla becki: Kadavu (Fiji)
Petroica polymorpha polymorpha: Makira (southeastern Solomon Islands)
Petroica polymorpha septentrionalis: Bougainville (northwestern Solomon Islands)
Petroica polymorpha kulambangrae: Kolombangara (west-central Solomon Islands)
Petroica polymorpha dennisi: Guadalcanal (southeastern Solomon Islands)
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Source: Clements checklist

English:
Norfolk or Pacific Robin
French:
Miro de Norfolk ou M. du Pacifique

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Norfolk or Pacific Robin ( Petroica [multicolor, pusilla or polymorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Norfolk or Pacific Robin ( Petroica [multicolor, pusilla or polymorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Norfolk or Pacific Robin ( Petroica [multicolor, pusilla or polymorpha])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Norfolk or Pacific Robin ( Petroica [multicolor or pusilla])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Norfolk or Pacific Robin ( Petroica [multicolor or pusilla])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Norfolk or Pacific Robin ( Petroica [multicolor or pusilla])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Norfolk or Pacific Robin ( Petroica [multicolor or pusilla])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Norfolk or Pacific Robin ( Petroica [multicolor, pusilla or polymorpha])
Christidis and Boles (2008): Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993, révision 2009): Miro écarlate ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition (version 6.5 incl. 2010 revisions): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition (version 6.6 incl. 2011 revisions): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition (version 6.7 incl. 2012 revisions): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition (version 6.8 incl. 2013 revisions): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition (version 6.9 incl. 2014 revisions): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Clements, version 2015: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Clements, version 2016: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Clements, version 2017: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Clements, version 2018: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
eBird version 1.52: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
eBird version 1.53: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
eBird version 1.54: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
eBird version 1.55: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
eBird version 2015: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
eBird version 2016: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
eBird version 2017: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
eBird version 2018: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 5): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 6): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 7): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World (vol 1-16): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (31/01/2015): Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.0: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.1: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.5: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.6: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.7: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.0: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.1: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.2: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.3: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.4: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.5: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.6: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.7: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.8: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.9: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.10: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.11: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.1: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.2: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.3: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.4: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.5: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.1: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.2: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.3: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.4: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.1: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.2: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.3: Pacific Robin ( Petroica multicolor) [version 1]
Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Petroica multicolor [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

This taxon is a subspecies of Petroica [multicolor, pusillla or boodang]

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