Subspecies Calidris (Crocethia) alba alba (Pallas, 1764)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tringa alba Pallas, P.S. 1764. Adumbratiunculae In: Vroeg, A. Catalogue raisonne' d'une collection supérieurement belle d'oiseaux, tant exotiques qu'Euroe'ens, de quadrupedes et d'insectes...; collection qu'on offre sux amateurs entiére & à un prix raisonnable, jusqu'au 22 septembre de cette année. La Haye xvi + 49, 7 pp. [7].
• Arenaria leucophaea carteri Mathews, G.M. 1916. Changes in name to be made to my "List of the birds of Australia," 1913. The Emu 16(1): 34-36 [Date published 1 Jul 1916] [35].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AMNH 741410 ♂, Point Cloates, Western Australia; AMNH 741407 unsexed, Point Cloates, Western Australia; AMNH 741408 unsexed, Point Cloates, Western Australia; AMNH 741409 unsexed, Point Cloates, Western Australia, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1-306 [21].

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, lagoon, mudflat, open beach.

History of changes