Genus Morus Vieillot, 1816

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• Morus Vieillot, L.P. 1816. Analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire. Paris : Déterville 70 pp. [Date published 14 Apr 1816] [63].

  Type species:

   Pelecanus bassanus Linnaeus, C., 1766 (as 'Fon de Bassan'. Not Morum Bolton, 1798) by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [44]; Dorst, J. & Mougin, J-L 1979. Order Pelecaniformes. pp. 155-193 in Mayr, E. & Cottrell, G.W. Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Museum of Comparative Zoology Vol. 1 Edn 2, pp.xvii + 547. [181, 183]; Tennyson, A.J.D. 2010. Order PELECANIFORMES: Pelicans, Gannets, Cormorants and Allies. pp.138-155 in Gill, B.G., Bell, B.D., Chambers, G.K., Medway, D.G., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Worthy, T.H. Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Wellington : Te Papa Press 4th Edn, 500 pp. [139].
• Moris Leach, W.E. 1816. Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens of the Indigenous Mammals and Birds that are preserved in the British Museum. London : British Museum 42 pp. [35] [misspelling of Morus Vieillot, 1816].

  Secondary source:

   Tennyson, A.J.D. 2010. Order PELECANIFORMES: Pelicans, Gannets, Cormorants and Allies. pp.138-155 in Gill, B.G., Bell, B.D., Chambers, G.K., Medway, D.G., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Worthy, T.H. Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Wellington : Te Papa Press 4th Edn, 500 pp. [139].
• Sulita Mathews, G.M. 1915. The admission of colour-genera. The Emu 15(2): 118-130 [Date published 1 Oct 1915] [123] [unnecessary nomen novum for Morus Vieillot, 1816].

  Secondary source:

   Tennyson, A.J.D. 2010. Order PELECANIFORMES: Pelicans, Gannets, Cormorants and Allies. pp.138-155 in Gill, B.G., Bell, B.D., Chambers, G.K., Medway, D.G., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Worthy, T.H. Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Wellington : Te Papa Press 4th Edn, 500 pp. [139].

Distribution

States

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

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), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Norfolk Island Province (21), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), 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)

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