Genus Himantopus Brisson, 1760

Museums

Regional Maps

• Himantopus Brisson, M.-J. 1760. Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la Division des oiseaux en Ordres, Sectiones, Genres, Espèces & leurs Variétés. Paris : J.-B. Bauche Vol. I xxiv 526 lxxiii pp. XXXVII pls. [46] [officially available: ICmZN Opinion 37, Directions 16, 105].

  Type species:

   Charadrius himantopus Linnaeus, 1758 by absolute tautonymy.
• Macrotarsus Lacépède, B.-G. 1801. [title]. Mémoires de l'Institut de Paris iii [518] [junior homonym of Macrotarsus Link, 1795 (Mammalia), and unavailable].

  Type species:

   Charadrius himantopus Linnaeus, 1758 by absolute tautonymy.
• Hypsibates Nitzsch, C.L. 1827. Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste; in alphabetischer Folge von genannten Schriftstellern, bearb., und. hrsg. von J.S. Erach und J.G. Gruber. Leipzig : Brockhaus Vol. 1 pt 1. [150] [new name for Himantopus Bonnaterre = Brisson].

  Type species:

   Charadrius himantopus Bonnaterre, 1790 by original designation.
• Calobatus Lesson, R.P. 1828. Manuel d' Ornithologie, ou Description des Genres et des principales Espèces d'Oiseaux. Paris : Roret Vol. 2 448 pp. [339] [new name for Himantopus Brisson 1760].

  Type species:

   Charadrius himantopus Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Himantellus Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organises. Palermo (Italy) : Privately Published 224 pp. [Date published April to July] [possible nomen nudum; not made available by introduction in synonymy of this nominal genus by G.R. Gray, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds British Museum (1855)117: ICdZN Art. 11. 5, 6].
• Macrotarsius Blyth, E. 1848. [Details not found]. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal xvii(1) [254] [presumed incorrect subsequent spelling of Macrotarsus Lacépède, 1799, and unavailable].

  Type species:

   Macrotarsius bitorquatus Blyth, 1848 by original designation.

 

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

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales
  • Norfolk Island
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea

Nearctic Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		08-Oct-2015	MODIFIED