Species Thalassarche chrysostoma (J.R. Forster, 1785)

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External Links

• Diomedea chrysostoma Forster, J.R. 1785. Mémoire sur les albatros. Mémoires Mathématiques et Physiques de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris 10: 561-572, Pl. XIII-XV [571, pl. 14].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Southern Pacific, Antarctic waters = South Georgia.

  Type locality references:

  Murphy, R.C. 1936. Oceanic birds of South America. New York : American Museum of Natural History pp.xxii+1245. [514]; Mathews, G.M. & Hallstrom, E.J.L. 1943. Notes on the order Procellariformes. Canberra : Verity Hewitt Bookshop pp. 62. [10].
• Thalassogeron chrysostoma alexanderi Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 527061 Skin (Formerly Western Australian Museum specimen [no registration number]), Mandurah, Western Australia [32°32'S, 115°43'E].

  Type locality references:

  Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1-306 [8].
• Diomedea culminata Gould, J. 1843. [Untitled] Mr. Prince exhibited to the meeting, on the part of Mr. Gould, nine new birds, collected during the recent voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur…. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (11): 103-108 [107].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP 4515 (VN 1640) Skin, Australian seas; ANSP 4516 (VN 1651) Skin, Australian seas.

  Type locality references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [8].

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Circumpolar mostly in sub-Antarctic over deep pelagic waters, occasionally over shelf waters and rarely seen from land, breeds on Macquarie Island and other sub-Antarctic islands

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Macquarie Island Province (24), 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), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, 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. [6] (Flat-billed Albatross, Flat-billed Mollymawk, Gould Albatross, Gould's Yellow-nosed Mollymawk, Grey-headed Mollymawk, Grey-mantled Albatross, Yellow-nosed Albatross, Yellow-nosed Mollymawk)

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-headed Albatross)

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

 

History of changes

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