Species Rallina (Rallina) tricolor G.R. Gray, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rallina tricolor Gray, G.R. 1858. A list of the birds, with descriptions of new species, obtained by Mr Alfred R. Wallace in the Aru and Ké Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1858: 169-198 [Mathews, G.M. 1911. On some necessary alterations in the nomenclature of birds. Pt II. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 1–22 (cf. 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))] [188].

  Type data:

   Holotype Skin (Unlocated female '... In Wallace's collection' Gray, 1858), Aru Islands, Indonesia.
• Eulabeornis tricolor robinsoni Mathews, G.M. 1911. The Birds of Australia. London : H.F. & G. Witherby Vol. 1 pp. [203].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 545493 Skin, Russell River, Queensland [17°13'S, 145°58'E].

  Type locality references:

  Greenway, J.C. Jnr 1973. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 1. Tinamidae, Spheniscidae, Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Pelecanoididae, Phaethontidae, Pelecanidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Cochleariidae, Scopidae, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae, Cathartidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Megapodiidae, Cracidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, Numididae, Meleagrididae, Turnicidae, Pedionomidae, Gruidae, Rallidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(3): 207-346 [308].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [18] (Red-necked Rail)

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 Crake)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [22] (Red-necked Crake)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	26-Oct-2022	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	GRUIFORMES	22-Apr-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED