Genus Thalasseus Boie, 1822

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thalasseus Boie, J.F. 1822. [title not located]. Isis von Oken, Jena 5 [563].

  Type species:

   Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787 by subsequent designation, see Gray, G.R. 1840. A List of the Genera of Birds, with an indication of the typical species of each genus. London : R. & J.E. Taylor viii 80 pp. [Date published Apr 1840: published before Apr.] [79].
• Pelecanopus Wagler, J.G. 1832. [Title not found]. Isis von Oken, Jena 3: col. 1224 [277].

  Type species:

   Sterna pelecanoides King, 1826 by monotypy.
• Thalaseus Gambel, 1849.
• Pelicanopus Hume, 1875.
• Pelecanopis Giebel, C.G. 1877. Thesaurus ornithologiae. Repertorium der gesammten ornithologischen Literatur und Nomenclatur Sämmtlicher Gattungen und Arten der Vögel nebst Synonymen und geographischer Verbreitung. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus Dritter Bd vi 861 pp. [presumed incorrect subsequent spelling of Pelecanopus Wagler, 1832, and unavailable].

 

Introduction

Accorded full genus status, following Christidis and Boles (2008: 144).

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), 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)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater, Coral Sea Islands Territory, Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., N coast, NE coast, NW coast
• Fiji
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Palaearctic Region

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [144]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)