Species Tyto multipunctata (Mathews, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tyto tenebricosa multipunctata Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [257] [holotype figured on pl. 274 and described in detail on p. 405 in Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 5 pt 4 pp. 353–440 + xi pls 267–274 [30 Aug. 1916]].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 629490 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 4276), Johnstone River, northeast QLD (as Johnston River)
  Comment: for holotype identification and type locality, see Mees, G.F. 1964. A revision of the Australian owls (Strigidae and Tytonidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 65: 1–62 (51); 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.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tyto tenebricosa (Mathews, 1912).

 

Introduction

Previously treated as a subspecies of T. tenebricosa

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Confined to coastal ranges of NE QLD above c. 300 m alt., north to Mts Finnegan and Amos, south to the Paluma Range, and inland to Windsor, Atherton and Evelyn Tablelands.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, carnivorous, closed forest, nocturnal, predator, sedentary, tall forest, territorial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, (opportunistic breeder), general carnivore, roosts in tree pipes and under sheltered overhanging banks, hunts in montane rainforests and its fringes, nests in tree hollows—other details of biology scanty.

 

General References

Mees, G.F. 1982. Review of Nocturnal Birds of Australia by R. Schodde and I.J. Mason. The Emu 82: 182-184 (alternative taxonomy)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1981. Nocturnal Birds of Australia. Illustrated by Jeremy Boot. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 136 pp. 22 pls. [publication dated as 1980] (distribution, habitat, behaviour, diet, voice, nidification, taxonomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	03-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)