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Subspecies Ocyphaps lophotes lophotes (Temminck, 1822)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

All inland and subcoastal E Australia, north to E Kimberley Division (east Ord River drainage), WA, W and central Arnhem Land (upper Alligator Rivers), south coast of Gulf of Carpentaria, NT, and foot of Cape York Peninsula to the Mitchell-Walsh Rivers, QLD—east to east watershed of Great Dividing Range and, patchily, east coast between Cairns, Qld, and region of Sydney, NSW, then inland as far south-east as Canberra and Albury, NSW, and Strathbogie Ranges, Grampians and the Little Desert, VIC—south to south coast between the South-East of SA (Penola-Robe) and Fowlers Bay, SA—and west to around east head of Great Australian Bight (?), eastern fringes of Nullarbor Plain, the central Australian ranges and eastern fringe of Great Sandy Desert to the upper Ord River drainage, WA—absent from central Simpson and Sandover Deserts—established in small numbers around Sydney, NSW, Healesville, VIC, and on Kangaroo Is., SA, since introduction. Intergrades with O. l. whitlocki Mathews, 1912 on broad front on western margins of range from west rim of Lake Eyre basin through central Australian ranges (Everard-Musgrave-Macdonnell Ranges) probably to Great Victoria Desert and eastern fringes of Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts north-west to south and central Kimberley Division.


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

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), 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), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs
    • Victoria
    • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, folivore, granivore, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, open scrub, sedentary, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Gregarious seasonal breeder/opportunistic breeder, ground-feeding seed-eater in open, often well-grassed woodland, flies with whistling flap-and-glide flight, roosts and nests in trees, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

 

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)
12-Feb-2010 (import)