Subspecies Anas (Nettion) gracilis gracilis Buller, 1869

Museums

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• Anas gracilis Buller, W. 1869. On some new species of New Zealand birds. Ibis 1869: 37-43 [41].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) CMW 192; CMW 193
  Comment: Two specimens listed here, presumably from syntype series of three, deposited in Colonial Museum (now Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) but not found in collection. See Tennyson & Bartle (2008).

  Secondary source:

   Tennyson, A.J.D. & Bartle, J.A. 2008. Catalogue of type specimens of birds in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Tuhinga, Te Papa Museum of New Zealand 19: 185–207 [202].
• Nettion castaneum rogersi Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1: 81-103 [Date published 18 Sep 1912] [86].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH AMNH 732086 Skin (male, collected 13 February 1909 by J.P. Rogers), Parry's Creek, Western Australia.

  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 [251].
• Anas gibberifrons mathewsi Phillips, J.C. 1923. A Natural History of the Ducks. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Vol. 2 1st Edn, pp. [266] [new name for Nettion castaneum rogersi Mathews].

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1930. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. Pt 2 pp. London : British Ornithologists' Union pp. 427-1048. [911].

Introduction

Sometimes placed as a synonym or subspecies of A. gibberifrons Müller 1842 in earlier literature (e.g. Mees 2006) but treated here as a species following Marchant & Higgins (1990), Kear (2005) and Gill et al. (2010).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

General References

Kear, J. (ed.) 2005. Ducks, Geese and Swans. Oxford : Oxford University Press 1, 908 pp.

Mees, G.F. 2006. The avifauna of Flores (Lesser Sunda Islands). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 80: 1-261 [57]

Common Name References

Menkhorst, P., Rogers, D., Clarke, R., Davies, J., Marsack, P. & Franklin, K. 2019. The Australian Bird Guide. Clayton South, VIC : CSIRO Publishing 2nd, pp. 576. [176-177] (Grey Teal)

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