Species Cladorhynchus leucocephalus (Vieillot, 1816)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Recurvirostra leucocephala Vieillot, L.P. 1816. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Paris : Chez Deterville Vol. 3. [103] [published 14 September 1816].
• Recurvirostra orientalis Cuvier, G.L. 1816. Le Régne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. L'Introduction, les Mammiéres et les Oiseaux. Paris : Déterville Vol. 1 xxxvii 540 pp. [496] [published December 1816].
• Leptorhynchus pectoralis Du Bus, V.B.L. 1835. Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles. Seance du 15 decembre. Lectures. Ornithologie.- L'Academie ordonne l'insertion dans son Bulletin de la notice suivante, contenant la Description d'un nouveau genre d'oiseau de l'ordre des eschassiers; notice qui lui a ete presentee dans sa seance du 17 janvier dernier par M.le chevalier B. Du Bus, et sur la quelle un rapport a ete lu a la seance du 7 mars. Genre Leptorhynque, - Leptorhynchus. Bulletin de la Royale Academie de Bruxelles ii [138].
• Himantopus palmatus Gould, J. 1837. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [publication dated 1837–1838, Pt 2, Jan. (=Apr.) 1837] [pl. 33].
• Cladorhynchus australis Lawson, F. 1905. A visit to Rottnest Island. The Emu 4(3): 129-132 [131] [nomen nudum; not made available by introduction in synonymy of this nominal species by Mathews, The Birds of Australia 3(1913)154: ICdZN Art. 11. 5, 6].
• Cladorhynchus leucocephalus rottnesti Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 743072 ♀ (Mathews no. 4452), Rottnest Island, 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 [24].

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • South Australia
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal salt marsh, lake, mudflat, salt marsh, saltfield.

 

Common Name References

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. (Banded Stilt)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)