Subspecies Falco (Falco) longipennis longipennis Swainson, 1838

Museums

Regional Maps

• Falco longipennis Swainson, W. 1838. Animals in Menageries. In, Lardner, D. (ed.) The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman & John Taylor. [341] (published 1 Jan 1838).

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Tasmania.
• Falco lunulatus Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [xiii] [invalid, preoccupied by Falco lunulatus Daudin, 1800].

  Secondary source:

   Daudin, F.M. 1800. Traite elementaire et complet d'Ornithologie. Paris Vol. 2. [122].
• Falco frontatus Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [Pt 3, published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] [Pl. 42].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP 2116 (VN 88) Skin, New South Wales; ANSP 2115 (VN 87) Skin, New South Wales; ANSP (VN 83) Unknown (Missing), New South Wales.

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [32].
• Falco melanotus White, S.A. & Mellor, J.W. 1913. Descriptions of Three New Birds. The Emu 12(3): 164-165 [Date published 1 Jan 1913] [164] (Not Shaw, 1809).

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA B.51593 Skin, Flinders Island, Bass Strait, Tasmania [40°00'S, 148°00'E]
  Comment: Replaced by Falco longipennis samueli Mathews, 1916.

  Type locality references:

  Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [87].
• Falco longipennis samueli Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 5 pp. [232] (New name for F. melanotus White & Mellor) [new name for Falco melanotus White & Mellor, 1913].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mathews, G.M. 1915. The Birds of Australia. London : H.F. & G. Witherby Vol. 5 pp. [226-229]

 

Generic Combinations

• Falco longipennis longipennis (Swainson, 1838). —
  Mathews, G.M. 1913. Additions and corrections to my reference list. Austral Avian Records 2(1): 6-10 [Date published 2 August 1913] [7]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southwest WA and eastern Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	04-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	FALCONIFORMES	20-Aug-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED