Genus Stercorarius Brisson, 1760

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• Stercorarius Brisson, M.-J. 1760. Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la Division des oiseaux en Ordres, Sectiones, Genres, Espèces & leurs Variétés. Paris : J.-B. Bauche Vol. I xxiv 526 lxxiii pp. XXXVII pls. [56] [officially available: ICmZN Opinion 37, Directions 16, 105].

  Type species:

   Larus parasiticus Linnaeus, 1758 by absolute tautonymy.
• Lestris Illiger, J.C.W. 1811. Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium, additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione Germanica. Berolini : Sumptibus C. Salfeld xvii 301 pp. [272].

  Type species:

   Larus parasiticus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Coues, E 1863. Xxx. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 124-128.
• Praedatrix Vieillot, L.P. 1816. Analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire. Paris : Déterville 70 pp. [Date published 14 Apr 1816] [65].

  Type species:

   Larus parasiticus Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Oceanus Koch, K.L. 1816. System der baierischen Zoologie. Nürnberg : Steinischen Buchhandlung Vol. 1 xlviii 435 pp. [380] [published July, 1816].

  Type species:

   Larus parasiticus Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy (Not Montfort (1808) Conch Syst. i: 58 (Mollusca)).
• Labbus Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organises. Palermo (Italy) : Privately Published 224 pp. [Date published April to July] [72] [nomen nudum; not made available by introduction into synonymy of Stercorarius Brisson, 1760 by G.R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds Brit. Mus. (1855)129: ICdZN Art. 11.5,6].
• Coprotheres Reichenbach, H.G.L. 1853. Die Vollständigste Naturgeschichte..., 2 Vögel, 1 Avium Syst. nat. Dresden-Leipzig : F. Hofmeister pp. 5-18. [5].

  Type species:

   Larus pomarinus Temminck, 1814 by original designation.
• Atalolestris Mathews, G.M. 1913. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 2 pt 5 pp. 477-527 + xiv pls 121-124. [Date published 31 Jan. 1913: publication dated as 1882] [500].

  Type species:

   Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot, 1819 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

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), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Macquarie Island Province (24), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), 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), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

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