Subspecies Ceyx azureus diemenensis (Gould, 1846)

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• Alcyone diemenensis Gould, J. 1846. Descriptions of eleven new species of Australian birds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1846: 18-21 [Date published July 1911: published May] [19] [also as incorrect subsequent spelling, diemensis by Cabanis, J. & Heine, F. 1860. Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt. Pt 2. Halberstadt : R. Frantz 175 pp. [publication dated 1859-1860 Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.]; lectotypification of Gould material in ANSP effected by Stone, W. in Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. A list of the species of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the location of the type-specimens. Austral Avian Records 1: 129–180 under ICZN Art. 74(a), and accepted here on the likelihood that the specimen chosen was among those few available to Gould from Tasmania when he drew up his description of Alcyone diemenensis, cf. Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 21232 ♀ (Verreaux cat. no. 648), TAS (as Van Diemen's Land).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stone, W. in Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. A list of the species of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the location of the type-specimens. Austral Avian Records 1: 129-180 [Date published 28 Feb 1913].

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Lower altitude streams on main island, particularly in north, west and south, where rare.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, diurnal, estuary, lentic freshwater, littoral, lotic freshwater, open forest, piscivore, sedentary, swamp, tall forest, territorial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, arthropod-feeder along sheltered streams, solitary or in dispersed pairs, feeds by diving from vantage perches low over water, nests in tunnels in banks beside water.

 

General References

Campbell, A.J. 1901. Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon. Sheffield : A.J. Campbell Vol. 2 525-1102 pp. (nidification)

North, A.J. 1909. Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Sydney : Australian Museum Spec. Cat. 1 Vol. 2 vii 380 pp. [published between 1906–1909] (nidification, under Alcyone azurea (Latham, 1802))

Thomas, D. 1979. Tasmanian Bird Atlas. Fauna of T Handbook No. 2. Hobart : Fauna of Tasmania Committee, University Tas. 171 pp. (distribution)

 

History of changes

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