Indian Ocean Red-tailed Tropicbird: Phaethon rubricauda westralis Mathews, 1912: Phaethontidae

Rosalie Willacy, S Flakus, Nicholas A Macgregor, E Bell, B Tiernan, David J James, Ian A W Mcallan, John C.Z. Woinarski, J C Hennicke, Rohan Clarke, Sarah M Brown, G. Barry Baker, Stephen Thomas Garnett

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Abstract

Infraspecific taxa
Four subspecies; includes P. r. roseotinctus (LC) from the Pacific Ocean that breeds on islands off eastern Australia.  P. r. westralis is not always recognised as a separate subspecies (Marchant and Higgins 1990).  
Taxonomic uniqueness: very high; subspecies/species: 4, species/genus: 3, genera/family: 1, families/order: 1.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020
EditorsStephen T Garnett, G Barry Baker
Place of PublicationClayton South VIC Australia
PublisherCSIRO Publishing
Pages33-36
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781486311910, 9781486311927
ISBN (Print)9781486311903
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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