Species Lugensa brevirostris (Lesson, 1831)
Kerguelen Petrel, Little Black Petrel, Short-billed Petrel
- Procellaria brevirostris Lesson, R.P. 1831. Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux. livr. 8. Paris : F.G. Levrault Vol. I xxxii + 659 pp. [611].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP C.G. 1995.262 Skin, Cape of Good Hope. - Pterodrome whitlocki Mathews, G.M. 1946. A Working List of Australian Birds including the Australian Quadrant and New Zealand. Sydney : G.M. Mathews 184 pp. [8].
Type data:
Holotype NMV HLW Skin, Cottesloe Beach, Western Australia [31°59'S, 115°45'E]
Comment: New name for P. brevirostris Campbell, 1927.Type locality references:
Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [23].Secondary source:
Campbell, A.J. 1927. The Kergeulen Petrel, Pterodroma brevirostris. Emu 26: 153 [153].
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Southern circumpolar in Antarctic/sub-Antarctic waters, rare visitor to pelagic waters off southern Australia, most commonly in the west
IMCRA
Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)
Other Regions
Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.), Macquarie Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
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] (Little Black Petrel, Short-billed Petrel)
Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [19] (Kerguelen Petrel)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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28-Sep-2022 | PROCELLARIIFORMES | 02-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | |
10-Nov-2020 | PROCELLARIIFORMES | 20-Mar-2014 | MODIFIED | Dr Wayne Longmore |
01-May-2014 | MODIFIED |