Species Puffinus (Puffinus) gavia (J.R. Forster, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Procellaria gavia Forster, J.R. 1844. Descriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terras per annon 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto collegit, observavit et delineavit Ioannes Reinoldus Forster. Nunc demun editae... Heinrico Lichtenstein. Berolini. [148].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Queen Charlotte Sound, Cook Strait, New Zealand.

  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. [35].
• Reinholdia reinholdi byroni Mathews, G.M. 1913. Additions and corrections to my Reference List, Addenda. Austral Avian Records 1(8): 187-194 [Date published Jan.] [187].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 527764 Skin, Byron Bay (error) = Five Islands, New South Wales [32°58'S, 151°36'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 [225]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [35].
• Cinathisma cyanoleuca Hull, A.F.B. 1915. Description of two new petrels. Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union Bulletin 5: 1 [1].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV HLW 4838 Skin, at sea between Ulladulla and Brush Island, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) AMNH AMNH 427791 Skin, at sea between Ulladulla and Brush Island, New South Wales; AM O.24063 Skin, at sea between Ulladulla and Brush Island, New South Wales; AM O.24064 Skin, at sea between Ulladulla and Brush Island, New South Wales; AMNH Skin, at sea between Ulladulla and Brush Island, New South Wales.

  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 [225]; Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [40] (Determined to be part of the type series).

  Secondary source:

   Hull, A.F.B. 1916. Description of two new petrels. Emu 15(3): 205-206 [205, pl. 32].

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Breeds in NZ, frequently present off eastern Australia mostly over inshore/offshore waters, rarely pelagic, vagrant to southern WA

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Lord Howe 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. (Fluttering Shearwater)

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2022	PROCELLARIIFORMES	04-Nov-2022	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PROCELLARIIFORMES	08-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED