Subspecies Sula sula rubripes Gould, 1838

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sula rubripes Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould Part 4. [Append. 7].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Selection of Raine Island as type locality follows Mathews (1915)), New South Wales = Raine Island, Queensland [11°35'S, 144°02'E].

  Type locality references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1915. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 4 pp.; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [44].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical seas in Indo-west Pacific, largely absent from shallow waters off northern Australia, breeds on offshore islands

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater, Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	28-Oct-2022	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PELECANIFORMES	01-May-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED