Species Esacus magnirostris Vieillot, 1818

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• Oedicnemus magnirostris Vieillot, L.P. 1818. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle Édition. Paris : Déterville Vol. 23. [231] [previously replaced as junior secondary homonym in Burhinus Illiger, 1811, and so permanently invalid: ICdZN Art. 59.3].
• Esacus magnirostris neglectus Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [226] [published January 1912].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 743525 ♀, Lewis Island, Dampier Group, Western Australia, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Storr, G.M. 1981. Birds of the northeastern interior of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9: 65-99 [26].
• Esacus magnirostris melvillensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1: 81-103 [Date published 18 Sep 1912] [85] [published September 1912].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 743530 ♂ (Mathews no. 13452), Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   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 [26].
• Esacus magnirostris queenslandicus Mathews, 1913.

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 743531 ♂, Mackay, Queensland, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   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 [26].

 

Introduction

See Christidis & Boles (2008: 129–130) for discussion of available names for this species.

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal
• New Caledonia
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, lagoon, mangrove, marine shore-tidal sandflat, mudflat, open beach, rock reef, tidal sandbar.

 

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp.

 

Common Name References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 1994. The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Monograph 2. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iv 112 pp. (Beach Stone-curlew)

 

History of changes

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