Subspecies Geopelia humeralis inexpectata Mathews, 1912

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• Geopelia humeralis inexpectata Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [186] [holotype figured on pl. 31 and described in detail on pp. 131–132 but not named in Mathews, G.M. 1911. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 1 pt 2 pp. 97–136 pls 20–33 [31 Jan. 1911, volume publication dated as 1910–1911], as cited in original description].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 614616 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 106), Parry's Creek, N WA
  Comment: for identification of holotype, see Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1–306.
• Geopelia humeralis apsleyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [27] [published without author—authorship credited in Austral Avian Rec. 1: 65].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 614639 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 11368), Melville Is., NT
  Comment: for idenfication of holotype see Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1–306.

  Type locality references:

  Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1-306.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [31]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and near inland N Australia west to all Kimberley Division, WA—south to Fitzroy, Margaret and upper Ord River drainages, WA, the middle Victoria River drainage, Larrimah, Buckalara Range and China Walls, NT, and Riversleigh and the middle Leichhardt and lower Flinders and Norman Rivers, QLD—and east to all Cape York Peninsula south to upper Gilbert, Lynd and Mitchell Rivers in the west and to Cooktown-Helenvale-Shipton's Flat in the east—also Buccaneer and Bonaparte Archipelagos in Kimberley Division, Melville-Bathurst and Croker Ils, Howard-Elcho-Wessel group, Groote Eylandt and Sir Edward Pellew group, NT, and Wellesley group and most Torres Strait islands, QLD, north to S coast of New Guinea. Intergrades with G. h. headlandi Mathews, 1913 through S Kimberley Division and Dampier Land to Anna Plains (Eighty-Mile Beach), WA, and apparently with G. h. humeralis (Temminck, 1821) across eastern foot of Cape York Peninsula from between upper Gilbert-Lynd-Mitchell and Burdekin Rivers to Cooktown and Mossman, QLD.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, mangrove, open forest, sedentary, tall forest, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Circumannual reproduction/seasonal breeder, ground-feeding seed-eater in galleries of broadleaf forest, the edges of rainforest, mangrove, and denser stream-side groves in open forest and woodland, feeds in open areas, rests, nests and roosts in fringing trees, wanders only locally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Frith, H.J., Wolfe, T.O. & Barker, R.D. 1976. Food of eight species of Columbidae, in the genera Geopelia, Phaps, Geophaps and Petrophassa. Australian Wildlife Research 3: 159-171 (diet)

 

History of changes

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