Genus Podargus Vieillot, 1818

Museums

Regional Maps

• Podargus Vieillot, L.P. 1818. Podarge. p. 151 in, Nouveau Dictionaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle Édition. Paris : Déterville. 27 pp. [151] [based on the vernacular Les Podarges of Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1816. Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son Organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Paris : Déterville Vol. IV 255 pp. XV pls [publication dated as 1817] (172, pl. IV, fig. 1), cf. Salvadori, T. 1880. Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Parte Prima. Torino : G.B. Paravia & Co. xii 573 pp. (513, footnote); Podargus humeralis Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 incorrectly designated as type species by Selby, P.J. 1840. A Catalogue of the Generic and Sub-generic Types of the Class Aves, Birds, arranged according to the Natural System. Newcastle : T. & J. Hodgson 70 pp. (36)].

  Type species:

   Podargus cinereus Vieillot, 1818 by monotypy.
• Celuro Jarocki, F.P. 1821. Aves. Zoologiia czyli Zwiérzetopismo ogólne podlug náynowszego systematu. Warsaw : D. Latkiewicza & U. Senatorskiey Vol. 2 467 pp. [156] [apparently drawn from Les Podarges of Cuvier, but based on Podarge Bulock de la Nouvelle Hollande, see Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1918. A forgotten ornithologist. Austral Avian Records 3: 142–150 [Mathews, G.M. 1912. Dates of issue of Lear's Illustr. Psittacidae and of the Verhandelingen over de Naturlijke (sic) Geschiedenis.: Land-en Volkenkunde. Austral Avian Records 1: 23–24 (published without author)]].

  Type species:

   Caprimulgus strigoides Latham, 1801 by monotypy (as Podarge Bulock de la Nouvelle Hollande).
• Cyphorhina Lesson, R.P. 1843. Écho du Monde Savant, 10th year, n.l.: col. 1068. [Mathews, G.M. 1912. Dates of issue of Lear's Illustr. Psittacidae and of the Verhandelingen over de Naturlijke (sic) Geschiedenis.: Land-en Volkenkunde. Austral Avian Records 1: 23–24 (published without author)] [col. 1068] [not preoccupied by Cyphirhinus Schoenherr, 1826 (Insecta), see ICZN Art. 56(b); cf. Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55–62 [For publication date Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240) Mathews, G.M. 1912. Dates of issue of Lear's Illustr. Psittacidae and of the Verhandelingen over de Naturlijke (sic) Geschiedenis.: Land-en Volkenkunde. Austral Avian Records 1: 23–24]].

  Type species:

   Podargus papuensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830 by monotypy.
• Micropodargus Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55-62 [For publication date Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240) Mathews, G.M. 1912. Dates of issue of Lear's Illustr. Psittacidae and of the Verhandelingen over de Naturlijke (sic) Geschiedenis.: Land-en Volkenkunde. Austral Avian Records 1: 23–24] [57].

  Type species:

   Podargus marmoratus Gould, 1855 by original designation.
• Megapodargus Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55-62 [For publication date Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240) Mathews, G.M. 1912. Dates of issue of Lear's Illustr. Psittacidae and of the Verhandelingen over de Naturlijke (sic) Geschiedenis.: Land-en Volkenkunde. Austral Avian Records 1: 23–24] [62] [nom. nov. for Cyphorhina Lesson, 1843; misspelt, as incorrect subsequent spelling, Megapodius by Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp. (143)].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1981. Nocturnal Birds of Australia. Illustrated by Jeremy Boot. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 136 pp. 22 pls. [publication dated as 1980] [89, 94, 99, 105]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea, its satellite islands and Solomon Ils.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), 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), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Distribution References

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (synonymy)

Hartert, E. 1892. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae. London : British Museum Vol. 16 xvi 703 pp., xiv pls. (synonymy)

Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

Peters, J.L. 1940. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 4 xii 291 pp. (synonymy)

RAOU Checklist Committee, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1926. Official Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union x 212 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Wolters, H.E. 1976. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey pp. Lief. 2, 81-160. (synonymy and avoiding recognition of subgenera)

 

History of changes

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