Subspecies Petrochelidon (Hylochelidon) nigricans nigricans (Vieillot, 1817)

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• Hirundo nigricans Vieillot, L.P. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle edition. Paris : Déterville Vol. 14. [Date published 13 Sep 1817] [523].
• Petrochelidon nigricans caleyi Mathews, G.M. 1913. Additions and corrections to my Reference List. Austral Avian Records 2: 63-71 [65].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 560815 adult ♂, NSW: Albury.
• Petrochelidon nigricans cayleyi Peters, J.L. 1960. Hirundinidae. pp. 80-125 in Mayr, E. & Greenway, J.C. Jr (eds). Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge Vol. 9 xii + 506 pp. [120] [unjustified emendation of Petrochelidon nigricans caleyi Mathews, 1913, but unavailable because cited only in synonymy and not treated as valid when introduced: ICdZN Art. 11. 5,6].
• Hirundo pyrrhonota Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [190] [junior primary homonym of Hirundo pyrrhonota Vieillot, 1817 = Petrochelidon pyrrhonota (Vieillot, 1817), Hirundinidae].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863.7.7.9 adult unsexed (authors used Latham's manuscript name), NT: western Gulf of Carpentaria.
• Collocalia arborea Gould, J. 1842. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 9. [Date published 1 Dec 1842] [pl. 14].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANSP 15760 adult ♂ (two other syntypes not located), Tasmania.
• Hirundo pyrrhonota australis Temminck, C.J. & Schlegel, H. 1847. Aves. In, Siebold, P. von (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio animalium, qual in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis superiotum, qui summum in India Batavia Imperium tenent … Lugduni Batavorum. Arnz & Soc. [35] [for date of publication of p. 35, the page in the Fauna Japonica on which this name was published, see Browning & Monroe, Archives of Natural History 18 (1991: 395)].
• Herse pygialis Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus Generum Avium. Tom. I. Lugduni, Batavorum : E.J. Brill 543 pp. [Date published 24 Jun 1850] [340] [as synonym of Hirundo nigricans Vieillot, 1817 — never taken up as valid and so unavailable: ICdZN Art. 11.5,6].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), 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), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, eremic riverine woodland, human habitation, low sclerophyll heath, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mangrove or mangal, mulga woodland, open freshwater wetland, paperbark woodland, subtropical rainforest, temperate eucalypt, temperate rainforest, tropical eucalypt, tropical rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

 

History of changes

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