Species Pterodroma (Cookilaria) nigripennis (Rothschild, 1893)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oestrelata nigripennis Rothschild, L.W. 1893. [Untitled] Mr Rothschild also exhibited and described the following species. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 1: 56-59 [57].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH AMNH 528231 Skin (Lectotype designated by Hartert, 1926b, p. 347), Sunday Island, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand.
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH AMNH 528232 Skin (,), Sunday Island, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand.

  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 [230].
• Cookilaria leucoptera Mathews, G.M. 1936. A Supplement to the Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands to which is added those Birds of New Zealand not figured by Buller. London : H.F. & G. Witherby xiv 177 pp. pls 46-102. [Pl. opposite p. 94 (lower figure)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Not Procellaria leucoptera Gould, 1844), Lord Howe Island, New South Wales [31°33'S, 159°05'E].
• Cookilaria hindwoodi Whitley, G.P. 1938. Naturalists of the first fleet. Australian Museum Magazine 6: 291-304 [301] (Reference to p. 297 is for the first use of the name and not the introduction of a replacement name for Cookilaria leucoptera Mathews) [replacement name; nomen nudum. An illustration unaccompanied by any written description].

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1936. A Supplement to the Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands to which is added those Birds of New Zealand not figured by Buller. London : H.F. & G. Witherby xiv 177 pp. pls 46-102.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Breeds on Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, occurs over continental shelf and beyond off eastern Australia from southern QLD to southern NSW, rare in TAS & VIC

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), Norfolk Island Province (21), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Common Name References

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. (Black-winged Petrel)

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2022	PROCELLARIIFORMES	04-Nov-2022	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PROCELLARIIFORMES	24-Apr-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED