Subspecies Dacelo (Dacelo) novaeguineae minor Robinson, 1900

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dacelo gigas minor Robinson, H.C. 1900. Contributions to the zoology of North Queensland. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum 2: 115-116 [116].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) LIVCM B.23.7.1900.5 ♂, Cooktown, QLD; LIVCM B.23.7.1900.5a ♂, Cooktown, QLD; LIVCM B.23.7.1900.5b ♂, Cooktown, QLD
  Comment: for identification of syntypes, see Wagstaffe, R. 1978. Type Specimens of Birds in the Merseyside County Museums. Liverpool : Merseyside County Museums, Merseyside County Council 33 pp.

  Type locality references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pts 1-5 499 +xii pp. pls 325-370.
• Dacelo mclennani North, A.J. 1911. Insectivorous birds. Description of a new sub-species of Dacelo gigas ("Laughing Kingfisher" or "Laughing Jackass"). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 22: 609 [609] [as Dacelo McLennani].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA B21491 ♀ adult, Jardine River, Cape York Peninsula, QLD (as Cape York Peninsula)
  Comment: holotype in SAMA, not cited by Condon, H.T. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum IV. Birds. Records of the South Australian Museum 17: 189–193.

  Type locality references:

  Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [358] (determined from coll. label).
• Dacelo gigas watsoni Mathews, G.M. 1917. New subspecies and notes on species. Austral Avian Records 3(4): 69-78 [Date published 21 Jul 1917] [70].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 637720 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Watson River, Cape York Peninsula, QLD (as Watson River, north Queensland)
  Comment: for identification of holotype, see 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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [231-232]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

N, central and E Cape York Peninsula, west to lower Archer, Holroyd and Mitchell Rivers, and south to Endeavour and upper Mitchell River drainages, Chillagoe, Newcastle Range and Hughenden where it intergrades abruptly with D. n. novaeguineae (Hermann, 1783) (q.v.).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, carnivorous, diurnal, open forest, sedentary, territorial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, general carnivore, in communal groups, advertises territory by chorusing, feeds in pouncing sallies from arboreal perches, nests in tree hollows.

 

General References

Ford, J. 1986. Avian hybridization and allopatry in the region of the Einasleigh uplands and Burdekin-Lynd divide, north-eastern Queensland. The Emu 86: 87-110 (geographic differentiation, taxonomy)

Keast, A. 1957. Variation in the Australian kingfishers (Aves: Alcedinidae). Records of the Australian Museum 24: 61-72 (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

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