Species Dendrocygna arcuata Horsfield, 1824

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anas arcuata Horsfield, T. 1824. Zoological Researches in Java and the neighbouring islands. London : Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen Vol. 8. [pl. 24].
• Dendrocygna javanica peroni Mathews, 1912.

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH AMNH 731098 Skin, Fitzroy River, northwestern Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Dendrocygna arcuata (Horsfield, 1824). —
  Swainson, W. 1837. On the Natural History and Classification of Birds. In, Lardner, D. (ed.). The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor Vol. 2(92) vi 398 pp. [publication dated 1836-1837 Kluge, A.G. 1971. John Edward Gray and "The Zoological Miscellany". In Gray, J.E. (1831–1844). The Zoological Miscellany. [reprint]. U.S.A. Misc. Publ. of Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.] [365]

Introduction

CAVS: 0204

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [13] (Black-legged Tree-Duck)

International Ornithological Committee 2003. List of International English Names of Birds of the World. (Wandering Whistling-Duck)

History of changes