Subspecies Fregata minor minor (Gmelin, 1789)

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• Pelecanus minor Gmelin, J.F 1789. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer Vol. 1 pp. 501–1032. [572].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, Unknown, No locality = Christmas Island, Indian Ocean; Unknown, No locality = Christmas Island, Indian Ocean.
• Fregata minor Brisson, A.D. 1763. Ornitholoiga sive Synopsis Methodica. Paris : Lugduni Batavorum Vol. 2 pp.527+lxvii. [494].
• Fregata minor listeri Mathews, G.M. 1914. On the species and subspecies of the genus Fregatta. Austral Avian Records 2: 117-121 [119].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH 729553 Skin, Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean [10°26'S, 105°40'E].
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH 729552 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 [239].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

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