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Acanthiza pusilla (Shaw, 1790)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 558381

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Species
	Synonym(s):	Motacilla pusilla Shaw, 1790
	Common Name(s):	Brown Thornbill [English]
		Acanthize mignon [French]
		acantiza-castanha [Portuguese]
		acantiza-pequena [Portuguese]
		Acantiza parda [Spanish]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Aves – Birds, oiseaux
	Order	Passeriformes – Perching Birds, passereaux
	Family	Acanthizidae Bonaparte, 1854 – Australasian warblers
	Genus	Acanthiza Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 – thornbills
	Species	Acanthiza pusilla (Shaw, 1790) – Brown Thornbill, Acanthize mignon, acantiza-castanha, acantiza-pequena, Acantiza parda
		Direct Children:
	Subspecies	Acanthiza pusilla dawsonensis A. G. Campbell, 1922
	Subspecies	Acanthiza pusilla diemenensis Gould, 1838
	Subspecies	Acanthiza pusilla magnirostris A. J. Campbell, 1903
	Subspecies	Acanthiza pusilla pusilla (Shaw, 1790)
	Subspecies	Acanthiza pusilla samueli Mathews, 1913
	Subspecies	Acanthiza pusilla zietzi North, 1904

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Alan P. Peterson, M.D.
	Notes:	PO Box 1999 Walla Walla, Washington 99362-0999
	Reference for:	Acanthiza pusilla

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	IOC World Bird List (version 15.1), website (version 15.1)
	Acquired:	2025
	Notes:	Gill, F., D. Donsker, and P. Rasmussen, eds. 2025. IOC World Bird List (v 15.1. Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org [Accessed 03 Mar 2025]. doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.14.1
	Reference for:	Acanthiza pusilla, Brown Thornbill [English]

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Gill, Frank, and Minturn Wright
	Publication Date:	2006
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Birds of the World: Recommended English Names
	Page(s):	ix + 259
	Publisher:	Princeton University Press
	Publication Place:	Princeton, New Jersey, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-691-12827-8
	Notes:	Includes a CD-ROM with the full dataset
	Reference for:	Acanthiza pusilla, Brown Thornbill [English]

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Nelson, E. C.
	Publication Date:	1998
	Article/Chapter Title:	John White's Journal of a voyage to new South Wales (London 1790): bibliogrpahic notes
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Archives of Natural History, vol. 25, no. 1
	Page(s):	109-130
	Publisher:
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	Reference for:	Acanthiza pusilla

Geographic Information


	Geographic Division:	Australia

	Jurisdiction/Origin:

Comments


	Comment:	It is believed that Shaw is the author of the birds in White's (1790) Journal of a voyage to new South Wales (Zoonomen 2011 and Nelson 1998)

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