Species Thalassoica antarctica (Gmelin, 1789)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Procellaria antarctica Gmelin, J.F. 1789. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer Vol. 1(2) 501-1032 pp. [publication dated 1788] [565].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) Unknown (Unlocated), Antarctic circle between 31ᵒ and 61ᵒS.

  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. [19].
• Procellaria lugubris Tschudi, J.J. 1856. Beiträge zur geographischen verbreitung der Meeresvögel. Journal für Ornithologie 4(2): 177-191 [185].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Antarctic circle between 31ᵒ and 61ᵒS; Unknown (Unlocated), Antarctic circle between 31ᵒ and 61ᵒS.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Common in iceberg and pack ice zone in Antarctic waters, moves north in winter but generally south of Antarctic Convergence, occasionally visits Macquarie and Heard Islands, mostly vagrant and beach-washed birds in southern Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Macquarie Island Province (24), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), 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] (Antarctic Petrel, Antarctic Fulmar, Fulmar)

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. (Antarctic Petrel)

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2022	PROCELLARIIFORMES	04-Nov-2022	MODIFIED
20-Nov-2015	PROCELLARIIDAE Leach, 1820	12-Nov-2015	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	PROCELLARIIFORMES	21-Apr-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED