Avibase: Amytornis modestus obscurior (Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior))

Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior)

Amytornis modestus obscurior (Mathews, GM 1923)

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Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Maluridae
Genus:
   Amytornis
Scientific:
  Amytornis modestus obscurior

Original description

Citation:
(Mathews, GM 1923)

Reference:
Birds Austral. [Mathews] 10 p.183

Imprint year:
1922-1923

Protonym:
Diaphorillas modestus obscurior

Type locality:
'Wyuna, Broken Hill, New South Wales = Wyarra, tank near Broken Hill, New South Wales, fide Parker, 1972, Emu, 72, p. 162.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/226382#page/287/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
24A1E804BCA4D96F

Avibase ID:
avibase-24A1E804

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/24A1E804

Taxonomic Serial Number:

Geographic range:

Amytornis modestus obscurior: southeastern central Australia (northwestern New South Wales)

Source: Clements checklist

English:
Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior)
French:
Amytis à bec fort (obscurior)

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior) ( Amytornis modestus obscurior)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior) ( Amytornis modestus obscurior)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior) ( Amytornis modestus obscurior)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior) ( Amytornis modestus obscurior)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Amytornis modestus obscurior
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior) ( Amytornis modestus obscurior)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior) ( Amytornis modestus obscurior)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior) ( Amytornis modestus obscurior)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior) ( Amytornis modestus obscurior)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior) ( Amytornis modestus obscurior)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior) ( Amytornis modestus obscurior)
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Thick-billed Grasswren (obscurior) ( Amytornis modestus obscurior)
Avilist 2025: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021): Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022): Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022): Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023): Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024): Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v10 (Oct 2025): Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Clements, version 2021: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Clements, version 2022: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Clements, version 2023: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Clements, version 2024: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Clements, version 2025: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Clements, version 2016: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Clements, version 2017: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Clements, version 2018: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Clements, version 2019: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017): Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017): Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018): Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.3: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.4: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.5: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.3: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 4.4: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.3: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 5.4: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.3: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.4: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.3: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 8.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 8.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 9.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 9.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 10.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 10.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 11.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 11.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 12.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 12.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 13.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 13.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 15.1: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 15.2: Amytornis modestus obscurior [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: subspecies

This taxon is a subspecies of Amytornis modestus [modestus]

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