Species Morus serrator (G.R. Gray, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sula serrator Gray, J.E. 1843. Additional radiated animals and annelides. pp. 177-295 in Dieffenbach, E. (ed). Fauna of New Zealand. Travels in New Zealand, with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of that country. London : John Murray Vol. 2. [200] [new name for Sula australis Gould, 1840, preoccupied by Sula australis Stephens].
• Sula australis Gould, J. 1841. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Dec. 8, 1840. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840: 168-178 [Date published Jul 1841: publication dated 1840] [177].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP 5330 (VN 1351) Skin, Van Diemans Land (Tasmania); ANSP 5331 (VN 1352) Skin, Van Diemans Land (Tasmania).

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [12].
• Sula serrator dyotti Mathews, G.M. 1913. List of additions of new sub-species to and changes in, my "List of the birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 729150 Skin, Tasmania.

  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 [235].

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Mostly coastal waters, out to continental shelf, breeding mostly on offshore islands

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), 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), Norfolk Island Province (21), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), West Tasmania Transition (9)

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. [9] (Australian Gannet, Booby, Diver, Solan Goose, Takupu)

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. (Australasian Gannet)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [20] (Australasian Gannet)

 

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	07-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED