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Subspecies Tyto novaehollandiae melvillensis (Mathews, 1912)

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Subspecies Tyto novaehollandiae melvillensis (Mathews, 1912)

  • Tyto novaehollandiae melvillensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [35] [as Tyto novae-hollandiae melvillensis; published anonymously—authorship credited in Austral Avian Rec. 1: 65].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 629444 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 10795), Cooper's Camp, Apsley Strait, Melville Island, NT (as Melville Island)
    Comment: for identification of holotype, see Mees, G.F. 1964. A revision of the Australian owls (Strigidae and Tytonidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 65: 1–62 (44); 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 novaehollandiae melvillensis (Mathews, 1912).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory


Extra Distribution Information

Endemic to Melville Is.-Bathurst Is.

Australian Endemic.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, carnivorous, nocturnal, open forest, predator, sedentary, tall forest, territorial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, opportunistic breeder, sexually dimorphic, general carnivore, presumably occurring in eucalypt forests and denser woodlands, but general biology still to be clarified.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
01-Oct-2015 MODIFIED