Subspecies Haematopus fuliginosus opthalmicus Castelnau & Ramsay, 1877

Museums

Regional Maps

• Haematopus opthalmicus Castelnau & Ramsay, 1877.

  Type data:

   Holotype (Unlocated), Bountiful Island, Queensland, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Ramsay, E.P. 1878. Notes on 'List of Australian Birds'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3(1): 38-40; Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [38].
• Haematopus ophthalmicus Ramsay, E.P. 1878. Notes on 'List of Australian Birds'. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3(1): 38-40 [40] [intentional correction of the spelling of opthalmicus in Haematopus opthalmicus Castelnau & Ramsay, 1877, and so an unjustified emendation and available: ICdZN Art. 33.2.3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) (not located), Bountiful Island, Queensland, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral cay, mudflat, rock reef, rocky island, tidal sandbar.

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