GenusPlegadis Kaup, 1829

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GenusPlegadis Kaup, 1829

• PlegadisKaup, J. 1829.Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte und Natürliches System der Europäischen Thierwelt. Leipzig : C.W. Leske xii 204 pp. [82].

  Type species:

   Tantalus falcinellus Linnaeus, C., 1766 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1927.Systema Avium Australasianarum.A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [190];Condon, H.T. 1975.Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [61];Steinbacher, J. 1979. Family Threskiornithidae. pp.253-268inMayr, E. & Cottrell, G.W.Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. 1 Edn 2, pp.xvii + 547. [256];Scofield, R.P. 2010. Order CICONIIFORMES: Herons, Ibises and Allies. pp.156-168inGill, B.G., Bell, B.D., Chambers, G.K., Medway, D.G., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Worthy, T.H.Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Wellington : Te Papa Press 4th Edn, 500 pp. [165].
• FalcinellusBechstein, J.M. 1803.Ornithologisches Taschenbuch von und für Deutschland; oder, Kurze Beschreibung aller Vögel Deutschlands für Liebhaber dieses Theils der Naturgeschichte. Leipzig : Carl Friedrich Enoch Richter et al. Vol. 2 550 pp. [272] [used only as binomen [i.e.T. falcinellus]].
• FalcinellusIlliger, J.C.W. 1811.Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium, additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione Germanica. Berolini : Sumptibus C. Salfeld xvii 301 pp. [260, 296] [used as subgeneric to Beinstein, 1803].

  Secondary source:

   Sharpe, R.B. 1898. Plataleae (Ibises and Spoonbills) and Herodiones (Herons and Storks). pp.1-328inSharpe, R.B. & Ogilvie-Grant, W.R.Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Impennes in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Trustees British Museum Vol. 26 pp. xvii + 687. [29].
• IbisLeach, W.E. 1816.Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens of the Indigenous Mammals and Birds that are preserved in the British Museum. London : British Museum 42 pp. [33] [not Temminck, 1815].

  Type species:

   Ibis ignea Leach, W.E., 1816 (=Numenius igneus Gmelin 1770) by original designation.
• FalcinellusLesson, R.P. 1828.Manuel d' Ornithologie,ou Description des Genres et des principales Espèces d'Oiseaux. Paris : Roret Vol. 2 448 pp. [253] [used as junior synonym ofIbis].

  Secondary source:

   Sharpe, R.B. 1898. Plataleae (Ibises and Spoonbills) and Herodiones (Herons and Storks). pp.1-328inSharpe, R.B. & Ogilvie-Grant, W.R.Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Impennes in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Trustees British Museum Vol. 26 pp. xvii + 687. [29].
• TantalidesWagler, J. 1832. Neue Sippen und Gattungen der Säugthiere und Vögel.Isis von Oken25: col. 1218-1235 [col. 1231].

  Type species:

   Tantalus falcinellus Linnaeus, C., 1766 by subsequent designation, seeSalvadori, T. 1882.Ornithologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Turino : T. Salvadori Vol. 3. [332].

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1927.Systema Avium Australasianarum.A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [190];Condon, H.T. 1975.Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [61];Scofield, R.P. 2010. Order CICONIIFORMES: Herons, Ibises and Allies. pp.156-168inGill, B.G., Bell, B.D., Chambers, G.K., Medway, D.G., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Worthy, T.H.Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Wellington : Te Papa Press 4th Edn, 500 pp. [166].
• FalcinellusGray, G.R. 1841.A List of the Genera of Birds, with their synonyms and an indication of the typical species of each genus. London : R. & J. Taylor xii 115 pp. [Date published Sep 1841] [87].

  Type species:

   Tantalus falcinellus Linnaeus, C., 1766 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1927.Systema Avium Australasianarum.A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [190];Condon, H.T. 1975.Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [61].
• PlegadornisBrehm, C.L. 1855. Verzeichniss der europäischen Vögel nach den Species und Subspecies.Naumannia[5]: 273-300 [290].

  Type species:

   Tantalus falcinellus Linnaeus, C., 1766 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1927.Systema Avium Australasianarum.A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [190];Condon, H.T. 1975.Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [61];Scofield, R.P. 2010. Order CICONIIFORMES: Herons, Ibises and Allies. pp.156-168inGill, B.G., Bell, B.D., Chambers, G.K., Medway, D.G., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Worthy, T.H.Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Wellington : Te Papa Press 4th Edn, 500 pp. [166].
• EgatheusLönnberg, E. 1906. Einige Nomenklaturfragen.Journal für Ornithologie54(4): 528-533 [533].

  Type species:

   Tantalus falcinellus Linnaeus, C., 1766 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1913. Notes on Billberg's Synopsis Faunae Scandavia.Austral Avian Records2(2-3): 33-48 [41];Mathews, G.M. 1927.Systema Avium Australasianarum.A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [190];Condon, H.T. 1975.Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [61];Scofield, R.P. 2010. Order CICONIIFORMES: Herons, Ibises and Allies. pp.156-168inGill, B.G., Bell, B.D., Chambers, G.K., Medway, D.G., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Worthy, T.H.Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Wellington : Te Papa Press 4th Edn, 500 pp. [166].

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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