Subspecies Pachyptila turtur turtur (Kuhl, 1820)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Procellaria turtur Kuhl, H. 1820. Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie. Abth. Frankfurt-am-Main Vol. 2 pp. [143].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP C.G: 1996-1041 Skin, Bass Strait, Australia.

  Type locality references:

  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 [762-763].
• Procellaria velox Kuhl, H. 1820. Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie. Abth. Frankfurt-am-Main Vol. 2 pp. [143] (Synonm of Procellaria turtur Kuhl 1820).

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Bass Strait, Australia.
• Halobaena typica Bonaparte, C.L. 1857. Conspectus generum avium. Paris : E.J. Brill Vol. 2 232+23 pp. [published 1850-1857] [194] [replacement name; proposed replacement name for Procellaria turtur Solander].

  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. [29].

  Secondary source:

   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 [763].
• Prion ariel Schlegel, H. 1863. Museum d'historie naturelle des Pay-Bas. Revue mathodique et critique des collections deposees dans cet etablisement. Leiden. pp. [18].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1888.5.18.153 Skin (Type of Gould's Prion ariel 1844 (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist: 366), nomen nudum = Pachyptila turtur. Bass Straits, collected by Gould himself on 16 April 1839), Bass Strait.

  Type locality references:

  Gould, J. 1844. On the family Procellaridae, with descriptions of ten new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13(LXXXV): 360-368 [366].
• Pseudoprion turtur nova 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] [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH AMNH 527238 Skin, Botany Bay, New South Wales [33°59'S, 151°14'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. [29].
• Pseudoprion turtur dertrum Mathews, G.M. 1938. Pachyptila, or the prions. Emu 37(4): 280-284 [281].

  Type data:

   Holotype Skin, Bunbury, Western Australia [33°20'S, 115°38'E].
• Pseudoprion turtur eatoni Mathews, G.M. 1912. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 2. [220].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1841.4.720 Skin, Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen Island.

  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. [86]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [29].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. 2010. Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Wellington : Te Papa Press 4th Edn, 500 pp. [104]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Breeds on offshore islands of TAS and in Bass Strait, frequents inshore and offshore waters, less common west of Spencer Gulf, SA

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), 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), West Tasmania Transition (9)

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2022	PROCELLARIIFORMES	03-Nov-2022	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PROCELLARIIFORMES	08-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED