Subspecies Ptilinopus regina ewingii Gould, 1842
- Ptilinopus ewingii Gould, J. 1842. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 5(7) 92 pls. [published June 1842, publication dated 1848 in Vol. 5] [text to pl. 56] [as Ewingii; first read at meeting of Zoological Society of London, 8 Feb. 1842, but not published until Nov. 1842 in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1842: 19, see 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. 56 of original description; lectotypification effected under ICZN Art. 74(a)].
Type data:
Lectotype ANSP 13074 ♂ adult (Verreaux cat. no. 46), Port Essington, NT (as Cobourg Peninsula).
Paralectotype(s) ANSP 13075 ♀ adult (Verreaux cat. no. 47)
Comment: for identification of syntypes, 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.Subsequent designation references:
Stone, W. in Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. A list of the species of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the location of the type-specimens. Austral Avian Records 1: 129-180 [Date published 28 Feb 1913] [134].Type locality references:
Gould, J. 1842. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Feb. 8, 1842. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842: 17-21. - Ptilinopus regina melvillensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [27] [published without author—authorship credited in Austral Avian Rec. 1: 65].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 609111 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 11356), Melville Is., NT
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.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Disjunct in coastal NW Australia, in coastal Kimberley Division, from Cygnet Bay (Dampier Land) to Napier Broome Bay, WA, and in coastal and subcoastal Arnhem Land, from Port Keats to Gove Peninsula and inland to Nourlangie and hinterland of Blue Mud Bay, NT—also larger off-shore islands in Bonaparte Archipelago, WA, and Melville-Bathurst Ils, Groote Eylandt and Sir Edward Pellew group, NT.
IBRA
NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, frugivorous, gregarious, mangrove, nomadic, resident, tall forest, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, arboreal fruit-eater in upper strata of monsoon vine forest and thicket, mangroves and denser fringing paperbark (Melaleuca) forest, rests, roosts and nests in trees, wanders only locally to seasonal food sources.
General References
Johnstone, R.E. 1981. Notes on the distribution, ecology and taxonomy of the Red-crowned Pigeon (Ptilinopus regina) and Torres Strait Pigeon (Ducula bicolor) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9: 7-22 (distribution, status, habitat, behaviour, food, nidification, notes, geographic variation)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |