Species Phoebetria palpebrata (J.R. Forster, 1785)
Light-mantled Sooty Albatross, Grey Albatross, Grey-mantled Albatross, Light-mantled Albatross
- Diomedea palpebrata Forster, J.R. 1785. Mémoire sur les albatros. Mémoires Mathématiques et Physiques de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris 10: 561-572, Pl. XIII-XV [571].
Type data:
Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Southern Pacific, Antarctic waters = South Indian Ocean. - Diomedea fuliginosa cornicoides Hutton, F.W. 1867. Notes on the birds seen during a voyage from London to New Zealand in 1866. Ibis 2 3(x): 185-193 [186] [nomen nudum].
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Circumpolar in Antarctica to subtropical waters mostly in eastern sector, breeds on Macquarie and Heard Islands, mostly observed from off TAS, less common along other parts of southern coast
IMCRA
Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Macquarie Island Province (24), 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), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)
Other Regions
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. [6] (Grey-mantled Albatross, Light-mantled Albatross)
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. (Light-mantled Sooty Albatross)
Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [18] (Light-mantled Sooty Albatross)
Marchant, S. & Higgins, P. (coordinators) 1990. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Melbourne : Oxford University Press Vol. 1 Pt A 735 pp. 53 pls. [346] (Grey Albatross)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 28-Sep-2022 | PROCELLARIIFORMES | 01-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 10-Nov-2020 | PROCELLARIIFORMES | 11-Apr-2014 | MODIFIED | Dr Wayne Longmore |
| 01-May-2014 | MODIFIED |