Subspecies Vanellus (Lobipluvia) miles miles (Boddaert, 1783)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tringa miles Boddaert, P. 1783. Table des Planches Enluminéez d'Histoire Naturelle, de M. d'Aubenton. Avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precédé d'une Notice des Principaux Ouvrages Zoologiques enluminées. Utrecht : Boddaert xv 58 + 9 pp. [published Dec. 1783 International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature 1985. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Third edition adopted by the XX General Assembly of the International Union of Biological Sciences. London : International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature xx 338 pp. [Art. 3]] [51].
• Parra ludoviciana Gmelin, 1789.
• Charadrius callaeas Wagler, J.G. 1827. Systema Avium. Charadrius. Stuttgart and Tubingen : J.G. Cottae. [76] [identity of name uncertain].
• Lobivanellus personatus Gould, J. 1842. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 6. [pl. 10].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP 11652 Adult ♂, Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia; ANSP 11653 Adult ♀, Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia.
• Lobibyx miles harterti Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [215].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 735455 ♂ (Mathews no. 355), Inkerman, Queensland, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   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 [13].
• Lobivanellus minor Cotton, J. 1848. List of birds which frequent the upper portion of the River Goulburn in the district of Port Phillip, New South Wales. Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science 3(5): 361-365 [Date published Jul 1848] [364] [nomen nudum; not made available by introduction to synonymy of this species by Mathews, The Birds of Australia, Suppl.2, Check-list (1923)4: ICdZN Art. 11.5 and 6].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, W plateau
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)
• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal salt marsh, estuary, flood plain, flooded paddock, freshwater swamp, lagoon, marsh, mudflat, open beach, pastures, urban.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		10-Sep-2012	MODIFIED