Taxon data and maps: Thalassoica antarctica

Taxonomy details

Context

Taxon Id
1030
Common Name
Antarctic Petrel
Authority
(Gmelin,1789)
Naming Status
Currently accepted name
Status
Found in the Antarctica/subantarctic or Southern Ocean
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Taxon has been resolved to the rank Species.

Hierarchy

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Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Procellariiformes
Family
Procellariidae
Genus
Thalassoica

©Kerry Steinberner 2008
Catalogue id
IA16053
Caption
Antarctic Petrel
Photographer
Steinberner, Kerry

Data and maps

Observation / specimen counts

There are 12657 observations / specimens of this taxa in the database from 1968 to 2006.

12657 species distribution records for this taxa are published to GBIF, OBIS

11066 species distribution records are south of 60 deg south.

Habitat domain - Marine

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or search within the following collections -

ABBBS Bird Banding records from the Australian Antarctic Territory and Heard Island. Details 2,550 data pts
Bird observations from South African BIOMASS voyages, Mawson and Prydz Bay region, 1984 and 1985 Details 144 data pts
Inventory of Antarctic seabird breeding sites Details 35 data pts
Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean Details 9,928 data pts

Specialised applications for this taxa

Satellite tracking via ARGOS (1990-present) or view list of tracking deployments for this species

Distribution map

Polar projection map of the occurrence records of this taxa.

Warning - Validation efforts are incomplete. There may be a few spurious positions that require editing.