Text extracted from Gill B.J.; 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 of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, . 4th edition. Wellington, Te Papa Press and Ornithological Society of New Zealand. Pages 64, 78-79 & 82-83.

Order : Albatrosses, , Prions and Checklist Committee (1990) recognised three families within the Procellariiformes, however, four families are recognised here, with the reinstatement of Pelecanoididae, following many other recent authorities (e.g. Marchant & Higgins 1990, del Hoyo et al. 1992, Viot et al. 1993, Warham 1996: 484, Nunn & Stanley 1998, Dickinson 2003, Brooke 2004, Onley & Scofield 2007). The relationships of the families within the Procellariiformes are debated (e.g. Sibley & Alquist 1990, Christidis & Boles 1994, Nunn & Stanley 1998, Livezey & Zusi 2001, Kennedy & Page 2002, Rheindt & Austin 2005), so a traditional arrangement (Jouanin & Mougin 1979, Marchant & Higgins 1990, Warham 1990, del Hoyo et al. 1992, Warham 1996: 505, Dickinson 2003, Brooke 2004) has been adopted. The taxonomic recommendations (based on molecular analysis) on the Procellariiformes of Penhallurick & Wink (2004) have been heavily criticised (Rheindt & Austin 2005) and have seldom been followed here.

Family Leach: , Petrels, Prions and Shearwaters Procellariidae Leach, 1820: Eleventh room. In Synopsis Contents British Museum 17th Edition, London: 68 – Linnaeus, 1758.

Subfamilies Procellariinae and Fulmarinae and subgenera Ardenna, Thyellodroma and (as recognised by Checklist Committee 1990) are not accepted here given the lack of agreement about to which subgenera some should be assigned (e.g. Austin 1996, Nunn & Stanley 1998, Kennedy & Page 2002, Austin et al. 2004). The arrangement of species used here follows the traditional of Jouanin & Mougin (1979), except for the placement of the more recently accepted genera Lugensa and Pseudobulweria. Imber (1985d) concluded that Lugensa should follow the species and that Pseudobulweria should follow Procellaria. Penhallurick & Wink (2004) also found a close relationship between Pseudobulweria and Procellaria and Bretagnolle et al. (1998) concluded that Pseudobulweria was closely related to shearwaters, so here Pseudobulweria is placed between Procellaria and .

Prion of Lacépède (1799: 14) has been associated with species now recognised as belonging to Pachyptila Illiger, 1811, but it is a nomen dubium (Mathews & Iredale 1913: 236, Iredale 1913: 25, Mathews 1922: 166). Priamphus Rafinesque (1815: 72), based on Lacépède, is also a nomen dubium.

The following names of relevance to New Zealand taxa are not listed under any species because: Procellaria fregata of Linnaeus (1766: 212) is a nomen dubium (Mathews 1936a); Procellaria nigra of Pallas (1769: 28) is a nomem dubium (Mathews 1934); Procellaria fuliginosa of Gmelin (1789: 562) and Procellaria melanopus of Gmelin (1789: 562) are nomina dubia (Godman 1907–08: 22, Bourne 1995); Procellaria velox of Kuhl (1820: 143) is a nomen dubium (Mathews 1912–13: 170); Procellaria grisea of Kuhl (1820: 144) is both a nomen dubium and a junior primary homonym of Procellaria grisea Gmelin, 1789; Procellaria lugens of Kuhl (1820: 144) is a nomen dubium (Salvin 1876, Bourne & Elliott 1965); Procellaria munda of Kuhl (1820: 148) and Nectris munda of Kuhl (1820: 148) have been placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology with name numbers 484 and 485 respectively (ICZN 1957).

Genus Daption Stephens Daption Stephens, 1826: in Shaw, General Zool. 13(1): 239 – Type species (by original designation) Procellaria capensis Linnaeus = Daption capense (Linnaeus). Calopetes Sundevall, 1873: Methodi Naturalis Avium Tentamen: 142. Unnecessary nomen novum for Daption Stephens, 1826. Petrella Mathews, 1914: Auk 31: 91 – Type species (by monotypy) Procellaria capensis Linnaeus = Daption capense (Linnaeus).

Daption capense (Linnaeus) Cape Procellaria capensis Linnaeus, 1758: Syst. Nat., 10th edition 1: 132. Based on the “The white and black Spotted Peteril” of Edwards 1747, Nat. Hist. Birds: 90, pl. 90, right fig. – Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Procellaria (Daption) capensis Linnaeus; G.R. Gray 1859, Cat. Birds Tropical Is Pacific Ocean: 56. Procellaria punctata Ellman, 1861: Zoologist 19: 7473 – coast of New Zealand. Daption capense (Linnaeus); Mathews & Iredale 1913, Ibis 1 (10th ser.): 235. Petrella capensis (Linnaeus); Mathews 1920, Austral Avian Rec. 4: 67.

Circumpolar; two : D. c. capense breeding from antarctic coasts north to islands and D. c. australe on southern islands in the New Zealand region. Debate about the gender of the genus and, therefore, the spelling of the species and subspecies names was reviewed by Watson (1974), Warham (1978), Johnstone (1978) and Olson (1988). Late Pleistocene–Holocene fossil and midden records (not subspecifically distinguished) from the North Island and the Chatham Islands (Millener 1991, Cooper & Tennyson 2008).

Daption capense capense (Linnaeus) Procellaria capensis Linnaeus, 1758: Syst. Nat., 10th edition 1: 132. Based on the “The white and black Spotted Peteril” of Edwards 1747, Nat. Hist. Birds: 90, pl. 90, right fig. – Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Procellaria naevia Brisson, 1760: Ornithologie 6: 146. Nomen nudum (fide ICZN 1963, Bull. Zool. Nom. 20: 343). Procellaria pardela Oken, 1816: Lehrb. Naturgesch. 3: 533 – Cape seas. Daption capenses [sic] (Linnaeus); Stephens, 1826: in Shaw, General Zool. 13(1): 241. Daption Capensis (Stephens) [sic]; Gould 1844, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., London 13: 366. Daption capensis (Linnaeus); Bonaparte 1857, Consp. Gen. Avium 2: 188. Procellaria naevia Bonaparte, 1857: Consp. Gen. Avium 2: 188 (ex Brisson) – no locality. Fulmarus (Daption) capensis (Linnaeus); G.R. Gray 1871, Hand-list Birds 3: 107. Daption capensis capensis (Linnaeus); Checklist Committee 1953, Checklist N.Z. Birds: 18. Daption capense capense (Linnaeus); Checklist Committee 1980, Notornis (Suppl.) 27: 8.

Breeds on the coasts and islands of Antarctica and the ; on South Georgia, South Shetland, South Orkney, South Sandwich, Bouvetøya, Crozet, Kerguelen, Heard, Scott and Balleny Islands (Marchant & Higgins 1990). Moves northward in autumn; ranging throughout southern seas to the Tropic of Capricorn and further north off the west coasts of South America and Africa (Watson et al. 1971, Marchant & Higgins 1990). Regularly in New Zealand seas in winter and spring (e.g. Houston 1998, 2000, 2001); rare in summer and autumn (Bartle 1974, Marchant & Higgins 1990). Several birds banded in Cook Strait have been recovered at South Orkney breeding colonies and others banded in the Weddell Sea and at Terre Adélie, Antarctica, have been caught at sea in New Zealand waters (Pinder 1966, Weimerskirch et al. 1985, Marchant & Higgins 1990).

Daption capense australe Mathews Snares Cape Petrel Daption capense; Finsch 1888, Ibis 6 (5th ser.): 309. Not Procellaria capensis Linnaeus, 1758. Daption capensis australis Mathews, 1913: Austral Avian Rec. 1: 187 – New Zealand. Daption capense australe Mathews; Checklist Committee 1980, Notornis (Suppl.) 27: 8.

Breeds on Snares Island / Tini Heke, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland (Beacon Rock) and Campbell / Motu Ihupuku Islands; in 1987 found breeding on The Forty-Fours and probably on The Pyramid and The Sisters, Chatham Islands (Bell 1975, Sagar et al. 1996). Ranges in New Zealand seas (e.g. Bartle 1974; Robertson & Jenkins 1981; Marchant & Higgins 1990; Onley 1995a; Tennyson 1998a; Houston 2000, 2001; Thompson et al. 2000), off southern Australia and south to the Ross Sea (Marchant & Higgins 1990, Medway 1992) but not usually distinguished at sea from D. c. capense.