Species Phoebetria fusca (Hilsenberg, 1822)

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External Links

• Diomedea fusca Hilsenberg, K. 1822. Miscellen. Froriep's Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde 3(5): Coll. 74 [74].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM A.02718 Skin (Type locality determined by Clancey, 1965), Mozambique Channel.

  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. [16]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [16].
• Phoebetria fusca campbelli Mathews, G.M. 1912. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 2. [304].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 527079 Skin (Formerly BMNH 1891.5.20.875), Australian seas.

  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. [16]; Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1-306 [9].

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Circumpolar in sub-Antarctic and temperate waters mostly in western sector, breeding on sub-Antarctic islands of Indian & Atlantic Oceans, mostly observed beyond continental shelf off western VIC/SA in Australia, less commonly along southern and east coast, rarely from land.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Macquarie Island Province (24), 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), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

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

Distribution References

Common Name References

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. (Sooty Albatross)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [18] (Sooty Albatross)

 

History of changes

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