Genus Oceanites Keyserling & Blasius, 1840

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oceanites Keyserling, A.F. & Blasius, J.H. 1840. Die Wirbelthiere Europa's; Die Unterscheidenden Charactere. Braunschweig : Friedrich Vieweg Vol. 1 xcviii 248 pp. [131, 238].

  Type species:

   Procellaria wilsoni Bonaparte, 1824 by subsequent designation, see Gray, G.R. 1841. A List of the Genera of Birds, with their synonyms and an indication of the typical species of each genus. London : R. & J. Taylor xii 115 pp. [Date published Sep 1841] [99].

  Secondary source:

   Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [37]; Jouanin, C. & Mougin, J-L. 1979. Order Procellariiformes. pp. 48-121 in Mayr, E. & Cottrell, G.W. Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. 1 Edn 2, pp.xvii + 547. [102-103]; Tennyson, A.J.D. 2010. Order PROCELLARIIFORMES: Albatrosses, Petrels, Prions and Shearwaters. pp.64-135 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. [124].
• Oceanitis Bonaparte, C.L.J.L. 1854. Conspectus systematis ornithologae. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 4 1(fasc. 3): 105-152 [143] [emendation of Oceanites Keyserling & Blasius, 1840].
• Procellata Bianchi, V.L. 1913. Fauna Russia, Oiseaux. Birds (Aves) Colymbiformes and Procellariiformes. St Petersburg : Imperial Academy of Sciences Vol. 1(2) pp.979. [805].

  Type species:

   Procellaria oceanica Kuhl, H., 1820 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Tennyson, A.J.D. 2010. Order PROCELLARIIFORMES: Albatrosses, Petrels, Prions and Shearwaters. pp.64-135 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. [124].
• Pealeornis Mathews, G.M. 1932. [Untitled] Mr. Gregory M. Mathews sent the following description of a new genus and species of Storm-Petrel. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 52: 132 [132] [= Oceanites oceanicus Kuhl, 1820].

  Type species:

   Pealeornis maoriana Mathews, 1932 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [38]; Jouanin, C. & Mougin, J-L. 1979. Order Procellariiformes. pp. 48-121 in Mayr, E. & Cottrell, G.W. Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. 1 Edn 2, pp.xvii + 547. [103]; Tennyson, A.J.D. 2010. Order PROCELLARIIFORMES: Albatrosses, Petrels, Prions and Shearwaters. pp.64-135 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. [128].

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Macquarie Island Province (24), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), 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), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.), Macquarie Island terrestrial & freshwater

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	PROCELLARIIFORMES	02-Sep-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		12-Feb-2010	(import)