Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Petrophassa rufipennis Collett, 1898

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CAVS: 0038

Species Petrophassa rufipennis Collett, 1898

Chestnut-quilled Rock-pigeon

  • Petrophassa rufipennis Collett, R. 1898. On some pigeons and parrots from north and north-west Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898: 353-357 [354] [Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.; syntype figured on pl. 28 in original description].
    Type data:
     
    Syntype(s) BMNH 1898. 10.10.1 ♂ adult (for identification of syntype in BMNH, see Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2. (281)), upper South Alligator River, NT (as central portions of Arnhem Land about the sources of the South Alligator River); UZMO ♂, upper South Alligator River, NT (as central portions of Arnhem Land about the sources of the South Alligator River).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory


Extra Distribution Information

W Arnhem Land plateaux and escarpments, north to Oenpelli-Nabarlek, west to upper South Alligator River and its catchment, south to Katherine Gorge, and east to Blyth River and Mainoru—records from outside this region require confirmation.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, open forest, open scrub, saxicoline, sedentary, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, ground-living seed-eater on rock sheets, rock faces and adjacent alluvium of sandstone escarpments, breakaways and plateaux, drinks in small groups, flies with clattering flap-and-glide flight, roosts and nests on rock ledges and crevices, shifts locally to food and water.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)