Species Peltohyas australis (Gould, 1841)
Inland Dotterel, Inland Plover
- Eudromias australis Gould, J. 1841. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Dec. 8, 1840. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840: 168-178 [Date published Jul 1841: publication dated 1840] [174] [as Eudromius australis, and corrected on presumption that Eudromius is an incorrect subsequent spelling of Eudromias Brehm, 1830].
Type data:
Holotype ANSP 11745 Immature, unsexed, South Australia, Australia. - Charadrius australis whitlocki Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [218].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 743809 ♀, Day Dawn, Western Australia, Australia.Secondary source:
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 [27].
Generic Combinations
- Charadrius australis australis (Gould, 1841). —
Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [218] - Peltohyas australis (Gould, 1841). —
Sharpe, R.B. 1896. Catalogue of the Limicolae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 24 xii + 794 pp. [307] (changed combination as type species of the genus Peltohyas)
Mathews, G.M. 1920. The Birds of Australia. Supplement No. 1. Check List of the Birds of Australia Part 1. Orders Casuariiformes to Menuriformes. London : Witherby & Co. pp.iv + 1-116. [47]
Introduction
See Introduction to genus
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Sparsely vegetated inland plains of Australia
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Bare stony plain, pastures.
General References
Common Name References
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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10-Nov-2020 | AVES | 01-Nov-2020 | MODIFIED | |
10-Nov-2015 | CHARADRIIDAE Leach, 1820 | 09-Mar-2016 | MODIFIED | |
22-Mar-2011 | MODIFIED |