Subspecies Dacelo (Dacelo) leachii cervina Gould, 1838

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• Dacelo cervina Gould, J. 1838. The Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould Pt 2 10 pls. [published Feb. 1838] [text to pl. 2] [published without specification of locality or type specimen—Gould based Dacelo cervina on two females that could have come from anywhere along the north coast of Australia and which cannot be identified with certainty in extant collections; lectotypification of the male from Port Essington in ANSP (no. 21297) 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 is therefore invalid, that specimen probably being the male figured later on pl. 20 in Gould, J. 1848. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 2 104 pls pp. [Pt 17, Dec. 1844], 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; nevertheless, type locality commonly assumed to be Port Essington, because of which cervina Gould, 1838 has traditionally been applied to the small dark population from that region, see Keast, A. 1957. Variation in the Australian kingfishers (Aves: Alcedinidae). Records of the Australian Museum 24: 61–72; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.; accordingly, to maintain conventional usage, a female from Port Essington is designated here as neotype with the approval of the RAOU Taxonomic Advisory Committee].

  Type data:

   Neotype ANWC 6096 ♀ subadult, Smith Point, Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, NT (as north coast of Australia).

  Subsequent designation 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. [354].
• Dacelo salussii Gould, J. 1865. Handbook to the Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1 viii 636 pp. [Date published Sep 1865] [125] [as synonym of Dacelo cervina Gould, 1838 and unavailable under ICZN Art. 11(d) & (e); attributed to Hombron & Jacquinot (=Pucheran, J.) and based on Martin chasseur de Salusse of Jacquinot, C.H. & Pucheran, J. In Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1853. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de vaisseau. Zoologie. Pt 1 (Mammifères et Oiseaux). Paris : Gide et Cie et J. Baudry Vol. III 6–166 pp. (100) and Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1853. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de vaisseau. Atlas, Zoologie. Paris : Gide et Cie et J. Baudry [published between 1842–1853] (Oiseaux, pl. 23 fig. 1)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂ adult (figured on fig. 1, pl. 23 of Oiseaux in Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1853. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de vaisseau. Atlas, Zoologie. Paris : Gide et Cie et J. Baudry [published between 1842–1853]), unspecified.
• Dacelo cervicalis Kaup, J.J. 1848. Familie Eisvögel. Verhandlungen Vereins der Grossherz. Hessen Darmstadt 2: 1-81 [68] [nom. nov. for Dacelo cervina Gould, 1838, in error].

  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.
• Dacelo leachii nana 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] [37] [published anonymously—authorship credited in Austral Avian Rec. 1: 65].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 637773 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 10868), Apsley Strait, Melville Is., NT (as Melville Island, Northern Territory)
  Comment: for identification of holotype and type locality, 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.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Melville Is. and adjacent coastal areas of NT.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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

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