Subspecies Biziura lobata lobata Shaw, 1796

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anas lobata Shaw, G. in Shaw, G. & Nodder, F.P. (ill.) 1796. The Naturalist's Miscellany; or coloured figures of natural objects drawn and described immediately from nature. London : Nodder Vol. VIII pls 255-300. [Pl. 255 & accompanying text] (pages not numbered).

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (possibly in Natural History Museum, London), New Holland.
• Anas carunculata 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. 5. [Date published 14 Dec 1816] [109].
• Biziura lobata westralis 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] [87].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH AMNH 734130 Skin, Herdsman's Lake, Western Australia.
• Biziura novaehollandiae Stephens, J.F. 1824. General Zoology or Systematic Natural History, commenced by the late George Shaw, M.D.F.R.S. & C. Aves, Part 2. London : G. Wilkie Vol. XII(2) pp. 1-264, pl. 36-64. [222].

 

Generic Combinations

• Biziura lobata (Shaw, 1796). —
  Eyton, T.C. 1838. A Monograph on the Anatidae or Duck Tribe. London : Longman. [168]
• Biziura lobata lobata (Shaw, 1796). —
  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] [87]

 

Introduction

Guay et al. (2010) provide evidence for treating the eastern and western populations of B. lobata as separate subspecies.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Primarily southwest WA

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

General References

Guay, P.-J., Chesser, R.T., Mulder, R.A., Afton, A.D., Paton, D.C. & McCracken, K.G. 2010. East–west genetic differentiation in Musk Ducks (Biziura lobata) of Australia suggests late Pleistocene divergence at the Nullarbor Plain. Conservation Genetics 11: 2105-2120

 

Common Name References

Guay, P.-J., Chesser, R.T., Mulder, R.A., Afton, A.D., Paton, D.C. & McCracken, K.G. 2010. East–west genetic differentiation in Musk Ducks (Biziura lobata) of Australia suggests late Pleistocene divergence at the Nullarbor Plain. Conservation Genetics 11: 2105-2120 (Western Musk Duck)

Mathews, G.M. 1915. The Birds of Australia. London : H.F. & G. Witherby Vol. 4 xii + 334 pp. [143] (Western Musk Duck)

 

History of changes

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