Subspecies Ephippiorhynchus (Ephippiorhynchus) asiaticus australis (Shaw, 1800)

Museums

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• Mycteria australis Shaw, G. 1800. Description of a new species of Mycteria. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 5: 32-35 [33].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMW 47.591 Skin (Ex Leverian Museum), New South Wales.

  Type locality references:

  von Pelzeln, A. 1873. On the birds in the Imperial Collection at Vienna obtained from the Leverian Museum. Ibis 3 3: 14-54 [39].
• Mycteria novaehollandiae Donovan, E. 1813. Mycteria. pp.465, pl. 62, fig. 4 in Rees, A. The Cyclopaedia. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown Vol. 24 pp.775. [465, pl. 62, fig. 4].
• Ciconia leucoptera Wagler, J. 1827. Systema Avium, pars prima. Ciconia, sp. 6. Stuttgart and Tubingen : J.G. Cottae pp. [138].
• Xenorhynchus asiaticus rogersi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [229].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 531015 Skin, Fitzroy River, Wyndham, Western Australia [15°29'S, 128°07'E].

  Type locality references:

  Greenway, J.C. Jnr 1973. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 1. Tinamidae, Spheniscidae, Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Pelecanoididae, Phaethontidae, Pelecanidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Cochleariidae, Scopidae, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae, Cathartidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Megapodiidae, Cracidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, Numididae, Meleagrididae, Turnicidae, Pedionomidae, Gruidae, Rallidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(3): 207-346 [246]; 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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