Species Pterodroma (Pterodroma) macroptera (A. Smith, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Procellaria macroptera Smith, A. 1840. [1838–1847] Pisces. In, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836. London : Smith, Elder & Co. Vol. 4 83 pp., 31 pls. [Pl. 52].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Cape Seas = seas off the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
• Pterodroma macroptera albani Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH AMNH 527960 Skin, Rabbit Island, near Albany, Western Australia [34°59'S, 117°24'E].

  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 [228].
• Procellaria fuliginosa Kuhl, H. 1820. Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie. Abth. 1. Frankfurt-am-Main. [142] (Not Procellaria fuliginosa J.F.Gmelin,1789).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Breeds off southern WA and sub-Antarctic Islands, reaches eastern states in winter/spring

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), 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 Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [7] (Great-winged Fulmar, Grey-faced Fulmar, Grey-faced Petrel, Long-winged Fulmar, Mutton-bird)

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. (Great-winged Petrel)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [19] (Great-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	AVES	12-Mar-2020	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PROCELLARIIFORMES	27-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		12-Feb-2010	(import)