Species Stercorarius antarcticus (Lesson, 1831)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lestris antarcticus 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. [616].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (Type locality restricted by Mathews 1912, Nov. Zool. 18: 212), Falkland Islands.

 

Generic Combinations

• Catharacta antarcticus (Lesson, 1831). —
  Waite, E.R. 1909. The vertebrata of the Subantarctic islands of New Zealand. pp. 542-600 in Chilton, C. (ed.). The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand. Canterbury, New Zealand : Christchurch Philosophical Institute of Canterbury Vol. 2. [556]
• Stercorarius antarcticus (Lesson, 1831). —
  Buller, W.L. 1873. A history of the birds of New Zealand. London : John van Voorst pp. xxiv + 384. [267]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Circumpolar in the Southern Ocean

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Macquarie Island Province (24), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Aerial, estuary, offshore waters, pelagic.

 

Common Name References

Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp. (Brown Skua)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	03-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
		18-Dec-2014	MODIFIED