Subspecies Fregata minor palmerstoni (Gmelin, 1789)

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• Pelecanus palmerstoni 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. [573].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown, Palmerston Island, Pacific Ocean.
• Fregata minor peninsulae Mathews, G.M. 1923. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, Oct. 10, 1923. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 44: 15 [15].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown, Raine Island, Queensland [11°35'S, 144°02'E].

  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. [49].
• Fregata minor mathewsi Lowe, P.R. 1924. Some notes on the Fregatidae. Novitates Zoologicae 31(2): 299-313 [309].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1881.5.1.6150 Skin, Raine Island, Queensland [11°35'S, 144°02'E].

  Type locality references:

  Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp. [176].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

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