Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Subspecies Ninox (Ninox) boobook halmaturina Mathews, 1912

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Subspecies Ninox (Ninox) boobook halmaturina Mathews, 1912

  • Ninox boobook halmaturina Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [254] [holotype figured on pl. 261 and described in detail on p. 312 in Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 5 pts 2–4 pp. 153–440 pls 245–274 [May 1916, publication dated as 1915–1916]].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 630439 ♀ (G.M. Mathews coll. no. 889), Middle River, Kangaroo Is., SA (as Kangaroo Island)
    Comment: for its identification and locality, 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.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Kangaroo Is.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, low open woodland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, predator, sedentary, tall forest, territorial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, general carnivore, in eucalypt forest and woodland, roosts arboreally by day usually among dense branches, hunts by night in perch-and-pounce sallies, nests on beds of decayed wood prepared by male in hollows, female alone broods.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020 AVES 17-Mar-2020 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)