Species Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758)

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• Struthio casuarius 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. [155].
• Casuarius johnsonii Müller, F. 1866. Discovery of a True Cassowary in North-East Australia. p. 1221 [1221].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM AM O.13371 Mount (Prev. registered [Palmer] 3319. Missing), Gowrie Creek scrub, Queensland.

  Type locality references:

  North, A.J. 1913. Notes on the early history of the Australian Cassowary (Casuarius australis Wall). Records of the Australian Museum 10: 39-48; Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [37].
• Casuarius casuarius hamiltoni Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [124].
• Casuarius australis Wall, W.S. 1854. The Australian Cassowary (Cassuarius Australis). Illustrated Sydney News 3 June. pp.

  Secondary source:

   Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [3].

Generic Combinations

• Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Illiger, J.C.W. 1811. Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium, additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione Germanica. Berolini : Sumptibus C. Salfeld xvii 301 pp. [247]

Introduction

Southern Cassowary previously treated as subspecies Casuarius casuarius johnsonii F. Müller, 1866 however species now recognised as monotypic

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

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. [5] (Cassowary)

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. (Southern Cassowary)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [14] (Southern Cassowary)

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [3] (Australian Cassowary)

Menkhorst, P., Rogers, D., Clarke, R., Davies, J., Marsack, P. & Franklin, K. 2019. The Australian Bird Guide. Clayton South, VIC : CSIRO Publishing 2nd, pp. 576. [210] (Southern Cassowary)

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