Subspecies Thalasseus bengalensis torresii Gould, 1843

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thalassius torresii Gould, J. 1843. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Oct. 11, 1842. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842(10): 131-140 [Date published Feb 1843: publication dated 1842] [140].
• Thalasseus bengalensis robini Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [55].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH 747241 ♂, Utingu, Cape York, Queensland, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   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 [36].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Coral cay, offshore waters, open beach, rock reef.

 

History of changes

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