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RESEARCH ARTICLE

A new subspecies of the Australian Ringneck (Barnardius zonarius) from the Upper Cooper Creek Drainage, Lake Eyre Basin, central Australia

Joseph M. Forshaw A and Leo Joseph A B
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A Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.

B Corresponding author. Email: leo.joseph@csiro.au

Emu 116(4) 440-444 https://doi.org/10.1071/MU16005
Submitted: 14 January 2016  Accepted: 19 May 2016   Published: 18 July 2016

Abstract

A new, apparently isolated subspecies of the Australian Ringneck Parrot (Barnardius zonarius) is described from the Upper Cooper Creek drainage in far north-eastern South Australia and neighbouring extreme south-western Queensland. If two species are recognised in Barnardius, this form would be a subspecies of B. barnardi.

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