Species Tribonyx mortierii Du Bus, 1840

• Tribonyx mortierii Du Bus, A.J.C. 1840. Nouv genre d'oiseau de la famille des Gallinules. Bulletin Academie Imperiale et Royale des Sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles 7(1): 212-214 and pl. [214].
• Brachyptrallus ralloides Lafresnaye, F. 1840. Descriptions de quelques nouvelle especes d'oiseaux. Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne 3: 227-232 [232].
• Tribonyx gouldi Sclater, P.L. 1867. Note on the Species of the Genus Tribonyx. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 20: 122-123 [123].

  Type data:

   Holotype Unknown, Nuper in vivario, Soc. Zool. Londin (= Captive bird, London).
  Status unknown, Unknown, Nuper in vivario, Soc. Zool. Londin (= Captive bird, London).

  Secondary source:

   Sclater, P.L. 1867. Untitled. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1867): 815-821 [817].
• Tribonyx mortieri Sharpe, R.B. 1894. Catalogue of the Birds in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Trustees Vol. 23 pp.xiii_353. [164] [subsequent misspelling].

Generic Combinations

• Gallinula mortierii (Du Bus, 1840).

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR)

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. [19] (Narkie, Native Hen, Tasmanian Native Hen, Water Hen)

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. (Tasmanian Native-hen)

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

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