Species Passer (Passer) montanus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fringilla montana Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [183].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced Australian stocks of mixed identity subspecifically, involving Passer montanus montanus (Linnaeus, 1758), P. m. saturatus Stejneger, 1885 and P. m. catellatus Kleinschmidt: Keve, Emu 76(1976)152-153 and Schodde & Mason, Directory of Australian Birds Passerines (1999)731.

Introduced from Europe and Asia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Victoria
• New Zealand

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Human habitation, temperate eucalypt.

 

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. (Eurasian Tree Sparrow)

 

History of changes

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