Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Yellow-billed Kingfisher, North Queensland

Yellow-billed Kingfisher, North Queensland

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CAVS: 0321

Species Syma torotoro Lesson, 1827

Yellow-billed Kingfisher

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)