Species Pedionomus torquatus Gould, 1840

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Species Pedionomus torquatus Gould, 1840

Plains Wanderer, Plains-wanderer

Pedionomus torquatus Gould, 1840.
Type data:
Holotype ANSP 12418 Adult ♀, South Australia, Australia.
Pedionomus microurus Gould, J. 1842. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Feb. 8, 1842. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842: 17-21 [20].
Type data:
Holotype ANSP 12417 Immature ♀, South Australia, Australia.
Turnicigralla gouldiana Des Murs, M.A.F.O. 1845. Notice sur le genre Pedionome Pedionomus (Gould). 8th Year, August. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 1845: 274-277 [276] [new name for torquatus Gould].
Turnicigralla macroura Des Murs, M.A.F.O. 1845. Notice sur le genre Pedionome Pedionomus (Gould). 8th Year, August. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 1845: 274-277 [276] [error for microurus Gould].
Pedionomus torquatus goulburni Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [53].
Pedionomus ocellatus Pompper, H. 1841. Die Säugethiere, Vögel und Amphibien nach threr geographischen Verbreitung tabellarisch zusammengestellt. Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs iv + 37 pp. [33] [nomen nudum; not made available by publication in synonymy of Pedionomus torquatus Gould, 1840, by Mathews, Austral Avian Rec. 5(1922)1: ICdZN Art. 11.5,6].

Distribution

States

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

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: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
- Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
- South Australia
- Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Grassland, low open shrubland, pastures.

General References

ICZN 2009. Opinion 2231 (case 3415). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(3): 293-294 [293] (Pedionomus torquatus Gould, [1 December] 1940 placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology)

Common Name References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 1994. The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Monograph 2. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iv 112 pp. (Plains-wanderer)

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	20-Oct-2021	MODIFIED
		08-Oct-2015	MODIFIED

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