Species Botaurus poiciloptilus (Wagler, 1827)

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• Ardea poiciloptila Wagler, J. 1827. Systema Avium. Pars prima. Stuttgart and Tubingen : J.G. Cottae 411 (unpaginated). (Ardea, no. 28, note).

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), New South Wales.

  Type locality references:

  Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [59].
• Botaurus australis Gould, J. 1848. The Birds of Australia. London : Gould, J. Vol. 6 pp. [64, (pt. xxx))].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP 6543 (No VN) Skin, South Australia; ANSP 6545 (No VN) Skin, South Australia; ANSP 6544 (No VN) SKin, Western Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [22].
• Botaurus poiciloptilus westralensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [235].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 530808 Skin, Sharks Bay, 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 [245].
• Ardea poiceloptera Hutton, F.W. 1871. Catalogue of the birds of New Zealand with diagnoses of the species. Wellington : New Zealand Geological Survey Vol. x+85 pp. [28] [subsequent misspelling].
• Botaurus poecilopterus Walker, J.J. 1892. Bird Life of Adele Island, North-West Australia. Ibis 6 4: 254-261 [260] (Misspelling) [subsequent misspelling].
• Botaurus poeciloptila Bonaparte, C.L. 1855. Tableaux Synoptiques de l'Ordre des Herons. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 40(14): 718-725 [Seance April 2] [723] [emendation; nomen nudum].

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: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Carnarvon (CAR), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [12] (Australian Bittern, Bittern, Black-backed Bittern, Boomer, Brown Bittern, Bull-bird, Bunyip, Matuka-lurepo)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 1994. The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Monograph 2. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iv 112 pp. (Australasian Bittern)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [20] (Australasian Bittern)

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