Species Amaurornis cinerea (Vieillot, 1819)

Museums

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• Porphyrio cinereus Vieillot, L.P. 1819. Nouveau Dictionaire 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 : Déterville Vol. 29 pp. [29].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), No locality = Java, Indonesia.
• Porzana leucophrys Gould, J. 1847. On eight species of Australian birds; and on Anthus minimus Vig. and Hors., as the type of a new genus Chthonicola Gould. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1847: 31-35 [published Apr.] [33].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 6243 (VN 1522) Skin, Port Essington, Northern Territory [11°15'S, 132°08'E].
  Paralectotype(s) ANSP 6244 (VN 1523) Skin, Port Essington, Northern Territory [11°15'S, 132°08'E]; ANSP 6245 (VN 1524) Skin, Port Essington, Northern Territory [11°15'S, 132°08'E].

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [46].
• Porzana cinerea parryi Mathews, G.M. 1913. New species and subspecies of Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 2: 73-79 [published Dec.] [73].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AMNH 546410 Skin, Parrys Creek, East Kimberley, Western Australia [15°36'S, 128°17'E]; AMNH 546411 Skin, Parrys Creek, East Kimberley, Western Australia [15°36'S, 128°17'E]; AMNH 546412 Skin, Parrys Creek, East Kimberley, Western Australia [15°36'S, 128°17'E]; AMNH 546413 Skin, Parrys Creek, East Kimberley, Western Australia [15°36'S, 128°17'E].

  Type locality references:

  Greenway, J.C. Jnr 1973. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 1. Tinamidae, Spheniscidae, Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Pelecanoididae, Phaethontidae, Pelecanidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Cochleariidae, Scopidae, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae, Cathartidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Megapodiidae, Cracidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, Numididae, Meleagrididae, Turnicidae, Pedionomidae, Gruidae, Rallidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(3): 207-346 [314].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [18] (White-eyebrowed Water Crake)

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. (White-browed Crake)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [22] (White-browed Crake)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	26-Oct-2022	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	GRUIFORMES	20-Apr-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED