Subgenus Gallinago (Gallinago) Brisson, 1760

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gallinago Brisson, M.-J. 1760. Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la Division des oiseaux en Ordres, Sectiones, Genres, Espèces & leurs Variétés. Paris : J.-B. Bauche Vol. V pp. 298-310. [298-310] [officially available, with feminine gender: ICmZN Opinion 67, Direction 39].

  Type species:

   Scolopax gallinago Linnaeus, 1758 by absolute tautonymy.
• Gallinago Koch, K.L. 1816. System der baierischen Zoologie. Nürnberg : Steinischen Buchhandlung Vol. 1 xlviii 435 pp. [312] [junior homonym and junior objective synonym of Gallinago Brisson, 1760: ICmZN Opinion 67, Direction 39].

  Type species:

   Scolopax gallinago Linnaeus, 1758 by absolute tautonymy.
• Telmatias Boie, J.F. 1826. Generalüebersicht der ornithologischen Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen. Isis von Oken, Jena 19(10): 969-982 [Date published Oct 1826] [979].

  Type species:

   Scolopax stenura Bonaparte, 1830 by monotypy.
• Subspilura Mathews, G.M. 1913. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. pt 3 pp. 205-300 pls 151-166. [Date published 18 Aug. 1913] [295].

  Type species:

   Gallinago megala Swinhoe, 1861 by original designation.
• Ditelmatias Mathews, G.M. 1913. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. pt 3 pp. 205-300 pls 151-166. [Date published 18 Aug. 1913] [282].

  Type species:

   Scolopax hardwicki Gray, 1831 by original designation.
• Capella Frenzel, J.S.T. 1801. Beschr. Vögel und ihrer Eyer in der Gegend Wittenberg. [58].

  Type species:

   Scolopax gallinago Linnaeus, 1758 (=Capella caelestris Frenzel, 1801) by monotypy.
• Gallinago Leach, W.E. 1816. Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens of the Indigenous Mammals and Birds that are preserved in the British Museum. London : British Museum 42 pp. [30] [presumed nomen nudum, and junior homonym of Gallinago Brisson, 1760].

  Type species:

   Scolopax major Gmelin, 1788 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coast

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)