Species Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin, 1789)

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• Procellaria gigantea Gmelin, J.F 1789. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer Vol. 1 pp. 501–1032. [563].

  Type data:

   Neotype MNHP C.G: 1911-340 Skin (Mathews (1912) determined original type locality as Staten Island, Argentina), Ile du roi George.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1912. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 2. [118].

  Type locality references:

  Voisin, J.-F., Brooke, R.K., Bock, W.J., Bourne, W.P., Cooper, J., Croxall, J.P., Escalante, R., Haftorn, S., Hogstad, O., Humphrey, P.S., Hunter, S., Jouanin, C., Lambert, K., Leraut, P., Shaughnessy, P.D., Vuilluemier, F. & Warham, J. 1992. Procellaria gigantea Gmelin, [1789] currently Macronectes giganteus; Aves, Procellariiformes: proposed conservation of usage of the specific name by designation of a neotype [Case 2784]. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49: 140-143 [142]; Voisin, J.-F., Mougin, J.-L. & Jouanain, C. 1997. Liste des types d'Oiseaux des collections du Muséum National d'Historie naturelle (France). 5. Procellariiformes (avec une note sur les catalogues du laboratoire des Mammifères et Oiseaux. Zoosystema 19(4): 757-788 [759].
• Macronectes giganteus wilsoni Mathews, G.M. 1912. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 2. [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1905.12.30.394 Skin, Cape Adare, Ross Sea, Antarctica.

  Type locality references:

  Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp. [314].
• Macronectes giganteus dovei Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [54].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Sydney, New South Wales [33°52'S, 151°12'E].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Southern oceans migrating north in winter, observed off southern half of Australian coast from Rockhampton, QLD to Coral Bay, WA, including TAS, breeds on Antarctica, and Macquarie and Heard Islands.

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), Macquarie Island Province (24), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), 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

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. [6] (Sea Goose)

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. (Southern Giant-Petrel)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [18] (Southern Giant-Petrel)

Marchant, S. & Higgins, P. (coordinators) 1990. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Melbourne : Oxford University Press Vol. 1 Pt A 735 pp. 53 pls. [356] (Bone-shaker, Giant Fulmar, Glutton, Mollymawk, Mother Carey's Goose, Mother Carey's Sea Goose, Nelly, Stinker, Stinkpot, Vulture Of The Seas)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2022	PROCELLARIIFORMES	02-Nov-2022	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PROCELLARIIFORMES	20-Apr-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED