Subspecies Fulica atra australis Gould, 1845

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• Fulica australis Gould, J. 1845. [Untitled]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1845)(13): 2-3 [2].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP 6335 (VN 1502) Skin, Western Australia; ANSP 6336 (VN 1503) Skin, Western Australia.

  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 [47].
• Fulica novaehollandiae Gould, J. in Grey, G. 1841. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in north-west and western Australia, during the years 1837, 38 and 39 under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. (Appendix D, pp. 415-421). [publication date] (Nomen nudum).

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1924. In Proceedings of meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, March 12, 1924. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 44: 69-70 [70] (Replacement name for F. novaehollandiae Gould, and in itself a nomen nudum).
• Fulica tasmanica Grant, J.E. 1845. Fulica Tasmanica? Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science 2: 310 [310].
• Fulica atra ingrami Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [196].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 547358 Skin, Alexandria, Northern Territory [19°03'S 136°42'E].

  Type locality references:

  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 [317].

Distribution

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

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