Subspecies Puffinus (Puffinus) assimilis tunneyi Mathews, 1912
- Puffinus assimilis tunneyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 2. [71, pl. 73].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 527857 Skin, Boxer Island, Esperance Bay, Western Australia [33°59'S, 121°41'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 [226]. - Puffinus assimilis glauerti Mathews, G.M. 1936. [Untitled]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 57(1): 24-25 [24].
Type data:
Holotype WAM A.2901 Skin, Cottesloe, Western Australia.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Breeds on offshore islands of WA from Recherche Archipelago to Abrolhos Islands, common around breeding grounds
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8)
Distribution References
History of changes
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| 28-Sep-2022 | PROCELLARIIFORMES | 04-Nov-2022 | MODIFIED | |
| 10-Nov-2020 | PROCELLARIIFORMES | 20-Mar-2014 | MODIFIED | Dr Wayne Longmore |
| 01-May-2014 | MODIFIED |