Species Pterodroma (Pterodroma) macroptera (A. Smith, 1840)
Great-winged Petrel, Great-winged Fulmar, Grey-faced Fulmar, Grey-faced Petrel, Long-winged Fulmar, Mutton-bird
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
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) |
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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) |