Species Turnix (Austroturnix) melanogaster (Gould, 1837)

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• Hemipodius melanogaster Gould, J. 1837. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [publication dated 1837–1838, Pt 2, Jan. (=Apr.) 1837] [Pl. 31, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Moreton Bay, Queensland [27°17'S, 153°16'E]
  Comment: Three were in Gould's collection and a fourth, now missing, in Kings College, London.
• Colcloughia melanogaster goweri 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] [53].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH AMNH 544619 Skin, Gowrie Scrub, Queensland.
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH AMNH 544620 Skin, Queensland.

  Type locality references:

  Hartert, E. 1929. Types of Birds in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 35: 42-58 [46]; Greenway, J.C. Jnr 1973. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 1. Tinamidae, Spheniscidae, Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Pelecanoididae, Phaethontidae, Pelecanidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Cochleariidae, Scopidae, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae, Cathartidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Megapodiidae, Cracidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, Numididae, Meleagrididae, Turnicidae, Pedionomidae, Gruidae, Rallidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(3): 207-346 [299].

Distribution

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Queensland

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IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

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. [17] (Black-breasted Button-quail, Black-breasted Quail, Black-breasted Turnix, Black-fronted Quail)

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. (Black-breasted Button-quail)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [25] (Black-breasted Button-quail)

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