Species Tringa (Heteroscelus) brevipes (Vieillot, 1816)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Totanus brevipes Vieillot, L.P. 1816. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Paris : Chez Deterville Vol. 6. [Date published 14 Dec 1816] [410].
• Totanus griseopygius Gould, J. 1848. On seven new species of Australian birds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1848(16): 38-40 [Date published 14 Nov 1848] [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype.
  Paratype(s) ANSP 11248 Adult ♀, Van Diemens Gulf, Northern Territory, Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Heteroscelus brevipes (Vieillot, 1816).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Siberian migrant, common coastal species in Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater, Coral Sea Islands Territory, Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, mangrove, rock reef, tidal sandbar.

 

Common Name References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 1994. The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Monograph 2. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iv 112 pp. (Grey-tailed Tattler)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	25-Oct-2022	MODIFIED
20-Nov-2015	SCOLOPACIDAE Rafinesque, 1815	09-Dec-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)