Species Fregata andrewsi Mathews, 1914

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Fregata andrewsi Mathews, G.M. 1914. On the species and subspecies of the genus Fregatta. Austral Avian Records 2: 117-121 [120].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 729504 Skin, Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean [10°26'S, 105°40'E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 729505 Skin, Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean [10°26'S, 105°40'E].

  Type locality references:

  Hartert, E. 1925. Types of Birds in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 32(6): 259-276 [275]; 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 [238].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Breeds on Christmas Island. One recorded at Darwin, NT (21 - 27 Jan. 1974).

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

Common Name References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [20] (Christmas Island Frigatebird)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Christmas Island Frigatebird)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	27-Oct-2022	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PELECANIFORMES	13-Apr-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED