Species Artamus (Artamus) leucorynchus (Linnaeus, 1771)

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Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Larius leucoryn Linnaeus, 1771 [Punctuated original spelling].

 

Introduction

Species-group name leucorynchus conserved as a justified emendation of punctuated original spelling, Lanius leucoryn --- see ICZN Opinion 2455. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 77, pp., 2020.

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, W plateau
• Fiji
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
• New Caledonia
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Vanuatu

Oriental Region

• Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Aust. Terr.)
• Indonesia
  • Java
  • Kalimantan
  • Sumatra
• Malaysia
  • Sabah
  • Sarawak
• Philippines

Ecological Descriptors

Eremic riverine woodland, human habitation, lignum or cane grass swamp, open freshwater wetland, paperbark woodland, tropical eucalypt.

 

Nomenclatural details of nominate taxon, not in Australia

Lanius leucorynchus Linnaeus, C. (1771). Mantissa Plantarum altera Generum editionis VI et Specierum editionis II. Holmiae [524] [as Lanius leucoryn., in abbreviation].

Artamus leucorhynchus Sharpe, R.B. (1890). Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 13 xvi + 701 pp. [4] [unjustified emendation of leucorynchus Linnaeus, 1771, but deemed identical, and unavailable: ICdZN Art. 58.6].

 

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (White-breasted Woodswallow)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	27-Jul-2021	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)