Species Xenus cinereus (Güldenstädt, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scolopax cinerea Güldenstädt, J.A. 1774. Nov. Comment. Acad. scient. imp. Petropol. Xxx : Xxx Vol. 19. [473].
• Terekia cinerea australis Mathews, G.M. 1917. New subspecies and notes on species. Austral Avian Records 3(4): 69-78 [Date published 21 Jul 1917] [69].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AMNH 739328 ♂, Buchanan Islet, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia; AMNH 739330 ♂, Buchanan Islet, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia; AMNH 739331 ♀, Buchanan Islet, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia; AMNH 739332 ♀, Buchanan Islet, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia; AMNH 739333 ♀, Buchanan Islet, Melville Island, Northern Territory, 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 [18].
• Scolopax terek Latham, J. 1790. Index ornithologicus, sive Systema Ornithologiae; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. London : Leigh & Sotheby Vol. 1 & 2 xviii 920 pp. [724].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Siberian migrant, coastal regions throughout Australia, uncommon through Great Australian Bight and southern TAS

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal.

 

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. (Terek Sandpiper)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	25-Oct-2022	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)