Subspecies Zapornia tabuensis tabuensis (Gmelin, 1789)

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• Rallus tabuensis Gmelin, J.F 1789. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer Vol. 1 pp. 501–1032. [717].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Tongatapu, Tahiti and neighbouring islands.

  Type locality references:

  Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [103].
• Gallinula immaculata Swainson, W. 1838. The Natural History of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles, or Monocardian Animals. London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, and John Taylor Vol. 1 368 pp. 100 figs. [337].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown, Tasmania.
• Porzana plumbea roberti Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [446].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 546149 Skin, [King George Sound], Western Australia [35°03'S, 117°58'E].

  Type locality references:

  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 [311].
• Crex plumbea Gray, J.E. 1829. In Griffith's 'Anim. Kingdom; Vol. 8 (Aves, 3), London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Old Vellum Cat. 39.148a Relaxed mount, No locality = New Zealand.

  Type locality references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1911. The Birds of Australia. London : H.F. & G. Witherby Vol. 1 pp. [217]; Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp. [229].
• Rallus tenebrosus Gray, G.R. 1862. A list of the birds of New Zealand and the adjacent islands. Ibis 4(15): 214-252 [239].
• Porzanoidea plumbea campbelli Mathews, G.M. 1914. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2(5): 83-107 [Date published 24 Sep 1914] [85].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AMNH 546153 Skin, Botany Swamp, New South Wales [33°57'S, 151°12'E]; AMNH 546154 Skin, Botany Swamp, New South Wales [33°57'S, 151°12'E]; AMNH 546155 Skin, Botany Swamp, New South Wales [33°57'S, 151°12'E]; AMNH 546156 Skin, Botany Swamp, New South Wales [33°57'S, 151°12'E]; AMNH 546157 Skin, Botany Swamp, New South Wales [33°57'S, 151°12'E].

  Type locality references:

  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 [312].

Generic Combinations

• Zapornia tabuensis tabuensis (Gmelin, 1789).

Distribution

States

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

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