Genus Daption Stephens, 1826

Museums

Regional Maps

• Daption Stephens, J.F. 1826. In: General Zoology or Systematic Natural History, commenced by the late George Shaw, M.D.F.R.S. & C. Aves. London : J. & A. Arch etc Vol.XIII(1) 290 pp. [239].

  Type species:

   Procellaria capensis Linnaeus, C., 1758 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [125]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [19]; Jouanin, C. & Mougin, J-L. 1979. Order Procellariiformes. pp. 48-121 in Mayr, E. & Cottrell, G.W. Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. 1 Edn 2, pp.xvii + 547. [63].
• Calopetes Sundevall, C.J. 1873. Methodi Naturalis Avium Disponendarum Tentamen. Stockholm : Samson & Wallin Pt II pp. 73-187 + 12 (Appendix). [publication dated as 1872] [142] [new name for Daption Stephens, 1826].

  Secondary source:

   Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [19].
• Petrella Mathews, G.M. 1914. Some binary generic names. Auk 31: 91 [91].

  Type species:

   Procellaria capensis Linnaeus, C., 1758 (= Daption capense Linnaeus) by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [125]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [19]; Tennyson, A.J.D. 2010. Order PROCELLARIIFORMES: Albatrosses, Petrels, Prions and Shearwaters. pp.64-135 in Gill, B.G., Bell, B.D., Chambers, G.K., Medway, D.G., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Worthy, T.H. Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Wellington : Te Papa Press 4th Edn, 500 pp. [82].

 

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), 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 Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.), Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Macquarie Island terrestrial & freshwater

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	PROCELLARIIFORMES	02-Sep-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		12-Feb-2010	(import)