Subgenus Ephippiorhynchus (Ephippiorhynchus) Bonaparte, 1855

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ephippiorhynchus Bonaparte, C.L. 1855. Conspectus Generum Avium. Lugduni, Batavorum : E.J. Brill Vol. 2 232 pp. [dated 1850-1857] [106].

  Type species:

   Mycteria senegalensis Shaw, G., 1800 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [60]; Kahl, M.P. 1979. Suborder Ciconiae, Family Ciconnidae. pp.245-252 in Mayr, E. & Cottrell, G.W. Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. 1 Edn 2, pp.xvii + 547. [250].
• Xenorhynchus Bonaparte, C.L. 1855. Conspectus Generum Avium. Lugduni, Batavorum : E.J. Brill Vol. 2 232 pp. [dated 1850-1857] [106].

  Type species:

   Mycteria australis Shaw, G., 1800 by subsequent designation, see Salvadori, T. 1882. Prodromus Ornitologiae Papuasiae et Mollucarium. Annali Museo Civico di Storia Naturale. Genova : Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Vol. 18 776 pp. [337].

  Secondary source:

   Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [60].

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), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

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