Species Pachyptila desolata (Gmelin, 1789)
Antarctic Prion, Banks' Dove Petrel, Banks' Petrel, Banks' Prion, Blue Dove Petrel, Dove Petrel, Dove Prion, Dove-like Petrel, Snow-bird, Whale-bird, Whiroia
- Procellaria desolata 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(2) 501-1032 pp. [publication dated 1788] [562].
Type data:
Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Kerguelen Island. - Heteroprion desolatus mattingleyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 2. [226].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH AMNH 527220 Skin, Torquay Beach, Geelong, Victoria [34°20'S, 144°19'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 [221]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [27]. - Heteroprion desolatus alexanderi Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1921. A Manual of the Birds of Australia. Orders Casuarii to Columbae. London : H.F. & G. Witherby Vol. 1 xxiv 279 pp. 36 pls. [42].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1920.7.15.11 Skin, Cottesloe Beach, Western Australia [31 59'S, 115 45'E]. - Heteroprion desolatus macquariensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 2. [231].
Type data:
Lectotype AMNH 527229 Skin, Macquarie Island [54°37'S, 158°52'E].Subsequent designation 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 [221]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [28].Type locality references:
Hartert, E. 1926. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 33: 344-357 [356]; 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 [221]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [28]. - Heteroprion desolatus dispar Iredale, T. 1938. Reviews - B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Research Expedition, 1929-31, Reports, Series B, vol. II: Birds by R.A. Falla, M.A. Issued August 20, 1937, Adelaide. Quarto, pp. i-xiv + 1-288, 4 col. pls. 216 figures in text. Emu 37(3): 243-245 [244] [this name was preoccupied by Reichenow].
- Heteroprion desolatus heardi Mathews, G.M. 1942. A change of name. Emu 41(4): 264 [264] [a proposed new name for H.d. dispar Iredale, An unnecessary nomen novum for Heteroprion desolatus dispar Iredale, 1938].
- Prion dispar Reichenow, A. in Vanhoffen, E. 1905. Bericht über die bei der deutschen Südpolarexpedition beobachteten Vögel. Journal für Ornithologie 53: 500-515 [Nomen nudum. Treated as synonym of P. desolata (Bianchi,1913,Faune Russ. Oiseaux, 1, p.523)] [nomen nudum].
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Southern circumpolar ranging to temperate waters in winter, breeds on Macquarie and Heard Islands, common off southern Australia Apr-Oct, usually over continental shelf or beyond
IMCRA
Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Macquarie Island Province (24), 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), 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
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] (Banks' Dove Petrel, Banks' Petrel, Banks' Prion, Blue Dove Petrel, Dove Petrel, Dove Prion, Dove-like Petrel, Snow-bird, Whale-bird, Whiroia)
Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [18] (Antarctic Prion)
History of changes
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| 28-Sep-2022 | PROCELLARIIFORMES | 03-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 10-Nov-2020 | PROCELLARIIFORMES | 20-Apr-2014 | MODIFIED | Dr Wayne Longmore |
| 01-May-2014 | MODIFIED |