Species Pterodroma inexpectata (J.R. Forster, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Procellaria inexpectata 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. [204].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), Seas south of New Zealand.
• Procellaria inexpectata thompsoni Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [125].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH AMNH 528001 Skin, Circular Head, Tasmania.

  Type locality references:

  Hartert, E. 1931. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 36: 184-190 [187]; 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 [229].
• Procellaria gularis Peale, T.R. 1848. United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Mammalia and Ornithology. Philadelphia : C. Sherman (Printer) 8 xxv pp. 17-338. [299].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM A.15706 Skin, Southern Ocean (68ᵒS, 95ᵒW) = Near Peter 1 Island, off Alexander Land, Antarctica.

  Type locality references:

  Deignan, H.G. 1961. Type Specimens of Birds in the United States National Museum. United States National Museum Bulletin 221: 1-718 [12]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [23].

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Regularly observed off southern TAS to Macquarie Island, less frequent off other eastern states, usually beyond continental shelf, breeds off southern NZ and ranges to Antarctica

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), 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), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory, Macquarie 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. (Mottled Petrel)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [19] (Mottled Petrel)

 

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	20-Apr-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED