Species Phalacrocorax (Anacarbo) fuscescens (Vieillot, 1817)

Museums

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• Hydrocorax fuscescens Vieillot, L.P. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle edition. Paris : Déterville Vol. 8. [86].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown, Tasmania.

  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. [47].
• Phalacrocorax leucogaster Gould, J. 1838. Descriptions of new species of Australian Birds. Principally in the author's collection, with characters of several new genera. In, A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould. Pt IV Appendix pp. 1-8 [published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] [7] [not Hydrocorax leucogaster Vieillot, 1817].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP 5403 (VN 1394) Skin, Van Diemans Land (Tasmania); ANSP 5404 (VN 1395) Skin, Van Diemans Land (Tasmania); ANSP 5405 (VN 1396) Skin, Port Lincoln, South Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [13].
• Hypoleucus gouldi Salvadori, T. 1882. Prodromus Ornitologiae Papuasiae et Mollucarium. Annali Museo Civico di Storia Naturale. Genova : Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Vol. 18 776 pp. [404] (New name for P. leucogaster Gould).
• Carbo gouldi tunneyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1: 81-103 [Date published 18 Sep 1912] [88].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 730010 Skin, Peak Island, Western Australia [34 °13'S, 115 °10'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 [236].

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Breeds on rocky islands, seldom enters bays and estuaries

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

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. [10] (Black-and-white Shag, Diver, White-breasted Cormorant)

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. (Black-faced Cormorant)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [20] (Black-faced Cormorant)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	27-Oct-2022	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PELECANIFORMES	07-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED