Species Phalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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• Tringa lobata 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. [148] [as tobata, emended to lobata on p. 824 of original publication, and followed here: ICdZN Art. 32.5].
• Charadrius rubricollis Gmelin, J.F. 1789. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer Vol. 1(2) 501-1032 pp. [publication dated 1788] [687].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH unknown coloured illustration (illustration by William W. Ellis, numbered Pl. 63 by Sharpe (1906)), between Asia and America.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Olson, S.L. 1998. Lectotypification of Charadrius rubricollis Gmelin, 1789. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 118(4): 256-259 [259].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Olson, S.L. 1998. Lectotypification of Charadrius rubricollis Gmelin, 1789. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 118(4): 256-259

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Pilbara (PIL), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)

Ecological Descriptors

Mudflat, open freshwater wetland, saltfield.

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. (Red-necked Phalarope)

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