Species Tringa (Totanus) totanus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scolopax totanus Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [145].
• Tringa totanus ussuriensis Buturlin, S.A. 1934. Polnyi Opredelitel Ptits S.S.S.R. Leningrad : Moskva Vol. 1 255 pp.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Irregular visitor to Darwin. Regular and widespread records from north-west WA. Regular visitor to Cocus (Keeling) and Christmas Islands.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Dampierland (DL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater swamp, lagoon, mangrove, mudflat, saltfield, tidal sandbar.

 

Common Name References

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. (Common Redshank)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Nov-2015	SCOLOPACIDAE Rafinesque, 1815	23-Nov-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)