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Species Phaps (Histriophaps) histrionica (Gould, 1841)

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Species Phaps (Histriophaps) histrionica (Gould, 1841)

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  • Peristera histrionica Gould, J. 1841. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 5 Pt 2 92 pls. [published Mar. 1841 1848 in Vol. 5] [text to pl. 66] [first published as Columba (Peristera) histrionica in the Athenaeum n. 672, p. 717 (Sept. 12, 1840), nom. nud., and later in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1840: 114 (May 1841), see Whitley, G.P. 1938. New species in newspapers. Emu 38: 63–64; Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246; Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440; syntypes figured on pl. 66 in original description: the figures are almost certainly of the lectotype and paralectotype in ANSP, see Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246; lectotypification effected under ICZN Art. 74(a)].
    Type data:
     Lectotype ANSP 13534 ♂ adult (Verreaux cat. no. 13), upper Namoi River plains, NSW (as Mokai River … Liverpool Range … Namoi River … Nundawar (=Nandewar) Range).
    Paralectotype(s) ANSP 13535 ♀ adult (Verreaux cat. no. 14); LIVCM D.1486b; RMNH (2, G.F. Mees, pers. comm.); LIVCM D.1486b; RMNH (2, G.F. Mees, pers. comm.).
  • Phaps histrionica alisteri Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [189].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 616145 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 158), Parry's Creek, N WA
    Comment: for identification of holotype, see 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; holotype figured on pl. 37 (front figure) and described in detail on p. 152-153 but not named in Mathews, G.M. 1911. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 1 pt 3 pp. 137–182 pls 34–45 [volume publication dated as 1910–1911; published 29 Apr. 1911], as cited in original description.

 

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Mainly in arid tropical inland; black-soil and gibber plains and dune systems of inland Australia, centred through mid north from SW Kimberley Division (Sturt Creek) to Barkly Tableland, around northern fringes of Tanami and Sandover Deserts, and through 'Channel Country', QLD to central Lake Eyre basin—irrupting erratically west to Pilbara and NW coast, north to all Kimberleys, central Arnhem Land and S Gulf of Carpentaria, east to westernmost outliers of Great Dividing Range between middle Mitchell River, QLD, and Namoi River, NSW, and south to middle Darling River plains, NSW, Lakes Frome and Torrens, SA, and Murchison River, WA, avoiding the central western plateau.


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, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N coastal, W plateau
    • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin
    • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Desert, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open shrubland, nomadic, sand hill desert, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Stony desert, opportunistic breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds on ground on seeds on treeless and near-treeless plains, gathering in vast flocks, and flying, with even wing-beats, to water daily, nests on near-bare ground, irrupts erratically, wanders far to food sources.

 

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)
12-Feb-2010 (import)