Species Syma torotoro Lesson, 1827

Museums

Regional Maps

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [235] (based on Keast, A. 1957. Variation in the Australian kingfishers (Aves: Alcedinidae). Records of the Australian Museum 24: 61–72)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Syma torotoro Lesson, R.P. 1827. Nouveau genre d'oiseau. Bull. Sci. Nat. Géol. Férussac 11: 443–444 [publication dated as 1826] [443] [also published in Lesson, R.P. In Duperrey, L.I. 1829. Voyage autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Sur la Corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie. Paris : Arthus Bertrand Vol. 1 iv 734 pp. [appeared on Feb. 28, 1829, publication dated as 1826] (689, livr. 15, 1830); holotype figured on pl. 31, fig. 1a in the Atlas to Duperrey (op. cit., livr. 11, 1829), see Mathews, G.M. 1913. Dates of publication of the "Ornithology … of the 'Coquille'". Austral Avian Records 2: 49-54 and Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.]

Type data: holotype MNHP 118 ♂ adult.
Type locality: Teluk Dore, Irian Jaya (as hâvre de Dorey, à la Nouvelle-Guinéea).

 

General References

Fry, C.H. 1980. The evolutionary biology of kingfishers (Alcedinidae). Living Bird 18: 113-160 (subspecific arrangements)

Hartert, E. 1930. III. List of the birds collected by Ernst Mayr. Novitates Zoologicae 36: 27-128 (subspecific arrangements)

Mees, G.F. 1982. Birds from the lowlands of southern New Guinea (Merauke and Koembe). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 191: 1-188 4 pls (subspecific arrangements; cf)

Peters, J.L. 1945. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 5 xi 306 pp. (subspecific arrangements)

Rothschild, W. & Hartert, E. 1901. Notes on Papuan birds. Novitates Zoologicae 8: 102-162 (subspecific arrangements and specific limits)

Sharpe, R.B. 1892. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae (contin.) and Halcyones. London : British Museum Vol. 17 xi 522 pp. XVII pls. (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. (subspecific arrangements)

 

History of changes

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