Genus Microcarbo Bonaparte, 1856

Museums

Regional Maps

• Microcarbo Bonaparte, C.L. 1856. Excursion dans les divers Musées d'Allemagne , de Hollande et de Belgique, et Tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des Échassiers (suite). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences. Paris 43: 571- 579 [577].

  Type species:

   Pelecanus pygmaeus Pallas, 1773 (originally spelled pygmeus) 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. [228]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [47]; Tennyson, A.J.D. 2010. Order PELECANIFORMES: Pelicans, Gannets, Cormorants and Allies. pp.138-155 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. [142].
• Haliëtor Heine, F. 1860. Catalogue of birds collected on the rivers Camma and Ogopbai, Western Africa, by Mr. P.B. du Chaillu in 1858, with notes and descriptions of new species by John Cassin. Journal für Ornithologie 8(3 (No. 45)): 186-203 [202].

  Type species:

   Pelecanus pygmaeus Pallas, 1773 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Tennyson, A.J.D. 2010. Order PELECANIFORMES: Pelicans, Gannets, Cormorants and Allies. pp.138-155 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. [143].
• Melanocarbo Bernstein, H.A. 1883. Dagboek van Dr. H.A. Bernstein's laatste reis van Ternate naar Nieaw-Guinea, Salawati en Batanta 17 October 1864 - 19 April 1885 edited by Mr. S.C.J.W. Van Musschenbroek met aanteekeningen, bijlagen en eene kaart. Tijdschrift Bijdragen tot de taal-land-en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie uit gegeven door het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-lan-en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie [119] [a possible error for Microcarbo Bonaparte].
• Melanoleucos 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. [41] (Nomen nudum [error for Microcarbo Bernstein, 1883 = Microcarbo Bonaparte, 1856]).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	PELECANIFORMES	29-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		12-Feb-2010	(import)