Subgenus Tringa (Heteroscelus) Baird, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heteroscelus Baird, S.F. 1858. Reports of Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean... 1853-6. Part II. General report upon the zoology of the several Pacific railroad routes. Birds. lvi + 1005 pp. [734] [not a junior homonym of Heteroscelis Berthold, 1827 (Hemiptera), and available: ICdZN Art. 56.2].

  Type species:

   Scolopax incana Gmelin, 1789 (=Tringa incanus Coues, 1872) by monotypy.
• Heteractitis Stejneger, L. 1884. Analecta Ornithologica. Second Series. Auk 1: 225-236 [236].

  Type species:

   Scolopax incana Gmelin, 1789 by monotypy.

 

Introduction

Since the species included under Heteroscelus species are included in Tringa by Christidis and Boles (2008: 138) — '…requiring Heteroscelus to be merged with [Tringa]', the genus is here included as a subgenus under Tringa.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater, Coral Sea Islands Territory, Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [138]

 

History of changes

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