Walter Earl Boles

Walter Earl Boles, Australian ornithologist and palaeontologist.

• Australian Museum (since 1975): Collection Manager, Ornithology.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 8 taxon names authored by Walter Earl Boles

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1983

• Boles, W.E. & Longmore, N.W. 1983. A new subspecies of treecreeper in the Climacteris leucophaea superspecies. Emu 83: 272–275. Reference page. 
• Longmore, N.W. & Boles, W.E. 1983. Description and systematics of the Eungella Honeyeater, Meliphaga hindwoodi, a new species of honeyeater from central Queensland. Emu 83: 59–65 DOI: 10.1071/MU9830059 Reference page. 

1985

• Parker, S.A., Boles, W.E. & Longmore, N.W. (1985): The rediscovery and taxonomic relationships of Gerygone igata amalia Meise, 1931. Bull. B. O. C. 105: 118-121. Reference page. 

1992

• Boles, W.E. 1992. Revision of Dromaius gidju Patterson and Rich, 1987 from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia, with a reassessment of its generic position. in Campbell, K.E., Jr. (ed.) Papers in avian paleontology honoring Pierce Brodkorb. Science Series (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 36: 195–208. ResearchGate Reference page. 

1998

• Boles, W.E. & Longmore, N.W. (1998): The avifauna of the Musselbrook area, Queensland. In: Geography Monograph Series No. 4. Musselbrook Reserve Scientific Study Report. (Eds: Comben, Lyn, Long, Suzanne, Berg, Kathryn) Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, Fortitude Valley, 25-46. Reference page. 

1999

• Aplin, K.P., Pasveer, J.M. & Boles, W.E. 1999. Late Quaternary vertebrates from the Bird's Head Peninsula, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, including descriptions of two previously unknown marsupial species. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 351–387. Online Reference page. 

2001

• Boles, W. E. 2001. A new emu (Dromaiinae) from the Late Oligocene Etadunna Formation. Emu 101: 317–321. DOI: 10.1071/MU00052 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2007

• Driskell, A., Christidis, L., Gill, B.J., Boles, W.E., Barker, F.K. & Longmore, N.W. 2007. A new endemic family of New Zealand passerine birds: adding heat to a biodiversity hotspot. Australian Journal of Zoology 55(2): 73–78. DOI: 10.1071/ZO07007 Reference page. 

2008

• Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Canberra: CSIRO Publishing. pp. 187–91. ISBN 978-0-643-06511-6. Book title page Reference page. 

2010

• Nguyen, J.M.T., Boles, W.E. & Hand, S.J. 2010. New Material of Barawertornis tedfordi, a Dromornithid Bird from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, and its Phylogenetic Implications. Records of the Australian Museum 62: 45–60. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.62.2010.1539 Reference page. 
• Worthy, T.H., Hand, S.J., Nguyen, J.M.T., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P., Scofield, R.P., Boles, W.E. & Archer, M. 2010. Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an Early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2): 479–498. DOI: 10.1080/02724631003618033 Reference page. 

2012

• Christidis, L., Irestedt, M., Rowe, D., Boles, W.E. & Norman, J.A. 2012. Circumscription, diagnosis and description of two subfamilies and one genus of Australo-Papuan robins (Aves: Passeriformes: Petroicidae). Zootaxa 3560: 87–88. Preview PDF Reference page. 

2013

• Schodde, R., Boles, W., Christidis, L., Horton, P., Johnstone, R.E., Joseph, L., Longmore, W. (2013). Case 3630 corcoracidae Mathews, 1927 (Aves) and the spelling melanorhamphos Vieillot, 1817 for the valid name of the type species of its type genus: proposed conservation of usage. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 70 (4): 238–244. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v70i4.a8 Reference page. 
• Christidis L., Rheindt, F.E., Boles, W.E. & Norman, J.A. 2013. A re-appraisal of species diversity within the Australian grasswrens Amytornis (Aves: Maluridae). Australian Zoologist 36: 429–437. DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2013.004 ResearchGate Reference page.