Species Lugensa brevirostris (Lesson, 1831)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Procellaria brevirostris Lesson, R.P. 1831. Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux. livr. 8. Paris : F.G. Levrault Vol. I xxxii + 659 pp. [611].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP C.G. 1995.262 Skin, Cape of Good Hope.

  Type locality references:

  Voisin, J.-F., Mougin, J.-L. & Jouanain, C. 1997. Liste des types d'Oiseaux des collections du Muséum National d'Historie naturelle (France). 5. Procellariiformes (avec une note sur les catalogues du laboratoire des Mammifères et Oiseaux. Zoosystema 19(4): 757-788 [761].
• Pterodrome whitlocki Mathews, G.M. 1946. A Working List of Australian Birds including the Australian Quadrant and New Zealand. Sydney : G.M. Mathews 184 pp. [8].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV HLW Skin, Cottesloe Beach, Western Australia [31°59'S, 115°45'E]
  Comment: New name for P. brevirostris Campbell, 1927.

  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. [23].

  Secondary source:

   Campbell, A.J. 1927. The Kergeulen Petrel, Pterodroma brevirostris. Emu 26: 153 [153].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southern circumpolar in Antarctic/sub-Antarctic waters, rare visitor to pelagic waters off southern Australia, most commonly in the west

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.), Macquarie Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [7] (Little Black Petrel, Short-billed Petrel)

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. (Kerguelen Petrel)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [19] (Kerguelen Petrel)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2022	PROCELLARIIFORMES	02-Nov-2022	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PROCELLARIIFORMES	20-Mar-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED