Species Aerodramus terraereginae (Ramsay, 1875)
Australian Swiftlet
Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement
- Pecotich, L. 1982. Speciation of the Grey Swiftlet Aerodramus spodiopygius in Australia. Tower Karst 4: 53-57 [53-56] (and Salomonsen, F. 1983. Revision of the Melanesian swiftlets (Apodes, Aves) and their conspecific forms in the Indo-Australian and Polynesian region. Noona Dan Papers no. 141. Biologiske Skr. Dansk Vidensk. Selsk. 23(5): 1–112)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, N Gulf, NE coast, NE coastal, NE oceanic
General References
Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
Hartert, E. 1892. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae. London : British Museum Vol. 16 xvi 703 pp., xiv pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
Mayr, E. 1937. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XXXIII Notes on New Guinea Birds. I. American Museum Novitates 915: 1-19 (subspecific arrangement)
Medway, Lord 1966. Field characters as a guide to the specific relations of swiftlets. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 117: 151-172 (subspecific arrangement and specific limits)
Medway, Lord & Pye, J.D. 1977. Echolocation and the systematics of swiftlets. pp. 225-238 in Stonehouse, B. & Perrins, C. (eds). Evolutionary Ecology. London : Macmillan vi 310 pp. (subspecific arrangement and specific limits)
Oberholser, H.C. 1906. A monograph of the genus Collocalia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 58: 177-212 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
Peters, J.L. 1940. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 4 xii 291 pp. (subspecific arrangement)
Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
Stresemann, E. 1925. Bruchstücke einer Revision der Salanganen (Collocalia). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 11: 179-190 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
White, C.M.N. & Bruce, M.D. 1986. The Birds of Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia). An annotated check-list. B.O.U. Check-list No. 7. London : British Ornithologists' Union 524 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
Wolters, H.E. 1976. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey pp. Lief. 2, 81-160. (subspecific arrangement and specific limits)
Common Name References
International Ornithological Committee 2003. List of International English Names of Birds of the World. (Australian Swiftlet)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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12-Feb-2010 | (import) |