Species Procellaria (Adamastor) cinerea Gmelin, 1789

• Procellaria cinerea Gmelin, J.F 1789. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer Vol. 1 pp. 501–1032. [563].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Antarctic Circle = New Zealand seas at 48ᵒS.

  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. [30].
• Procellaria gelida Gmelin, J.F 1789. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer Vol. 1 pp. 501–1032. [564].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) Between 35ᵒ and 50ᵒ South.

  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. [30].
• Procellaria melanura Bonnaterre, (l'Abbé) 1791. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Pt 1: ornithologie 1. Paris: veuve Agasse. [xcvii + 320] [79].
• Procellaria haesitata Forster, J.R. 1844. Descriptiones Animalium quae in Itinere ad Maris Australis Terras per annos 1772, 1773, et 1774. Berlin 424 pp. [208].
• Adamastor typus Bonaparte, C.L. 1857. Conspectus generum avium. Paris : E.J. Brill Vol. 2 232+23 pp. [published 1850-1857].
• Procellaria adamastor Schlegel, H. 1863. Revue méthodique et critique (Catalogue) des Collections déposées dans cet Établissement. Procellaridae. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle des Pays‑Bas, Revue Méthodique et Critique des Collections déposées dans cet Etablissement 6(Monogr. 22): 1-40 [23] [an unnecessary nomen novum for Adamastor typus Bonaparte, 1857].

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Breeds on sub-Antarctic islands including Macquarie Island, usually south of Antarctic Convergence but observed in pelagic waters off Australia well past continental shelf, very rarely observed from land

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Macquarie Island Province (24), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), 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

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [8] (Black-tailed Shearwater, Brown Petrel, Bully, Great Gray Petrel, Kuia, Night Hawk, Pediunker)

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. (Grey Petrel)

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

 

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