Species Hirundo (Hirundo) tahitica Gmelin, 1789

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Distribution

States

Queensland

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: Torres Strait Islands
• Fiji
• French Polynesia
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea
  • New Britain
• Tonga

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, human habitation, mangrove or mangal.

 

Nomenclatural details of nominate taxon, not in Australia

Hirundo tahitica Gmelin, J.F. (1789). Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synomymis, locis. Tomus I. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Pt 2. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer pp. 501-1032 [1016] [publication dated 1788].

 

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Pacific Swallow)

 

History of changes

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