Species Thalassarche carteri (Rothschild, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thalassogeron carteri Rothschild, L.W. 1903. Untitled. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 14: 6 [6] [original spelling].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 527048 Skin, Point Cloates, Western Australia [22°43'S, 113°40'E].

  Type locality references:

  Hartert, E. 1926. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 33: 344-357 [345]; 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 [220].
• Diomedea bassi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [206].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 527047 Skin, Southeast Australian Seas, 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 [220]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [15].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Robertson, C.J.R. 2002. The scientific name of the Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche carteri. Marine Ornithology 30: 48-49

Generic Combinations

• Diomedea chlororhynchos carteri (Rothschild, 1903) [subspecies of D. chlororhynchos Gmelin, 1789]. —
  Checklist Committee, Ornithological Society of New Zealand, Inc. (E.G. Turbott, Convener) 1990. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Auckland : Random Century xv 247 pp. [19]
• Thalassarche carteri (Rothschild, 1903). —
  G. Robertson and R. Gales 1998. Albatross Biology and Conservation. Chipping Norton : Surrey Beatty pp. 312. [19]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Thalassarche chlororhynchos Gmelin, 1789 [a misidentification].

Introduction

Previously treated as a subspecies of D. chlororhynchos Gmelin, 1789 however Brooke et al. (1980), Robertson (2002), and Onley & Schofield (2007) provided strong evidence for treatment at the specific level which is now widely accepted. Records of Thalassarche chlororhynchos Gmelin, 1789 from Australia are probably based on this species.

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), 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), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

General References

Brooke, R.K., Sinclair, J.C. & Berruti, A. 1980. Geographical variation in Diomedea chlororhynchos (Aves: Diomedeidae). Durban Museum Novitates 12: 171-180

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. 2010. Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. Wellington : Te Papa Press 4th Edn, 500 pp. (raised to full species status)

Onley, D. & Scofield, P. 2007. Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World. London : Christopher Helm pp. 240.

Robertson, C.J.R. 2002. The scientific name of the Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche carteri. Marine Ornithology 30: 48-49

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