Subspecies Biziura lobata menziesi Mathews, 1914

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• Biziura lobata menziesi Mathews, G.M. 1914. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2(5): 83-107 [Date published 24 Sep 1914] [90].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 734136 ♂ (Holotype reported by Greenway (1973) as held in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 734136) however Greenway (1973) states that the type specimen was collected in Western Australia, while Mathews (1914) lists the type location as New South Wales. The current data record for AMNH 734136 lists the collection location as NSW, but lists the Collector's Number as "956" which appears to be in error as both Mathews (1914) and Greenway (1973) cite Mathews collection number as 756. Associated records in the AMNH (i.e. collected by Mathews) include 755, 757 and 759.), New South Wales.

 

Introduction

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

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Australia from southern QLD south through NSW, VIC & eastern SA to TAS.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

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 (Eastern Musk Duck)

Mathews, G.M. 1915. The Birds of Australia. London : H.F. & G. Witherby Vol. 4 xii + 334 pp. [147] (Eastern Musk Duck)

 

History of changes

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	AVES	02-Oct-2020	ADDED