Genus Esacus Lesson, 1831

Museums

Regional Maps

• Esacus Lesson, R.P. 1831. Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux. livr. 7. Paris : F.G. Levrault. [547].

  Type species:

   Oedicnemus recurvirostris Cuvier, 1829 by monotypy.
• Orthorhamphus Salvadori, T. 1874. Catalogo sistematico degli uccelli di Borneo con note ed osservazioni di G. Doria ed O. Beccari intorno alle specie da essi raccolte nel ragioto di Sarawak. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 5: 61 [312].

  Type species:

   Oedicnemus magnirostris Vieillot, 1818 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, W plateau
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
  • Kei Islands
  • Lombok
  • Sumbawa
  • West Timor
• New Caledonia
• Papua New Guinea
  • Bismarck Archipelago

Oriental Region

• Andaman Islands
• Bangladesh
• Burma (= Myanmar)
• China (People's Republic)
  • Hainan
• India
  • Assam
• Indonesia
  • Java
  • Kalimantan
  • Sumatra
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka

History of changes

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