Species Anseranas semipalmata (Latham, 1798)

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• Anas semipalmata Latham, J. 1798. An Essay on the Tracheae or Windpipes of various Kinds of Birds. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 4: 90-128 [103].
• Anas melanoleuca Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [69].
• Chenogeranus australis Brown, T. 1842. Illustrations of the Genera of Birds embracing their Generic Characters; with Sketches of their Habits. Part 5, Report of the Council of the Manchester Natural History Society. Smith, Elder & Co: London. [nomen nudum].

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [209].
• Anseranas semipalmata hamiltoni 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] [85].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH AMNH730518 Skin (Male, collected 1 February 1909), Parry's Creek, East Kimberley, 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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [209]

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), 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] (Magpie Goose, Black and White Goose, Pied Goose, Semipalmated Goose, Wild Goose)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [14] (Magpie Goose)

International Ornithological Committee 2003. List of International English Names of Birds of the World. (Magpie Goose)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020		08-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020		04-May-2011	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED