Ptilotula Plumula Bird

English Name:  Gray-fronted Honeyeater
Latin Name:  Ptilotula plumula
Protonym:  Ptilotis plumulus BirdsAustr. pt2 pl.40
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Ptilotula
Taxonomy Code:  gyfhon1
Type Locality:  'Western Australia [= York district, Western Australia] .
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1841
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PTILOTULA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Yellow-tinted Honeyeater P. flavescens) Dim. < genus Ptilotis Swainson, 1837, meliphaga; "The genus Ptilotis as here used would be considered polyphyletic by genus splitters. Though the Australian species have so far escaped attention from such, the New Guinea species have been split off. I consider that those who would accept such genera as Xanthotis would also need genera as follows. Caloptilotis (nov.) for P. macleayana Ramsay: Paraptilotis (nov.) for P. fusca Gould: Lophoptilotis (nov.) for P. leadbeateri McCoy: and Ptilotula (nov.) for P. flavescens Gould." (Mathews 1912).
Synon. Paraptilotis, Sacramela.

plumula / plumulosus / plumulus
L. plumulus little feather < pluma plume.

SUBSPECIES

Gray-fronted Honeyeater (plumula)
Latin Name: Ptilotula plumula plumula
plumula / plumulosus / plumulus
L. plumulus little feather < pluma plume.

Gray-fronted Honeyeater (planasi)
Latin Name: Ptilotula plumula planasi
planasi
Very Revd. Father Emiliano Planas (1874-1948) Spanish Benedictine missionary, Head of Drysdale Mission, Kimberley, Western Australia (subsp. Ptilotula plumula).

Gray-fronted Honeyeater (graingeri)
Latin Name: Ptilotula plumula graingeri
graingeri
Mt. Grainger, South Australia.