Audubon's Shearwater

SCI Name:  Puffinus lherminieri
Protonym:  Pufflnus Lherminieri Rev.Zool. 2 p.102
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Procellariidae / Puffinus
Taxonomy Code:  audshe
Type Locality:  Antilles.
Author:  Lesson
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

PUFFINUS
(Procellariidae; Ϯ Manx Shearwater P. puffinus)  English names Puffing (c. 1502) or Puffin (c. 1508), originally applied to the cured carcass of the fat nestling shearwater, a delicacy until the end of the 18th century (cf. Med. L. paphinus puffin; Late Med. L. puphinus puffin or shearwater). By confusion and association the name was gradually also applied to the Atlantic Puffin, becoming fixed on that species during the second half of the 19th century, but retained in ornithology as a generic name for the shearwaters (see Lockwood 1984, 121-122); "Genre du Puffin.  Genus Puffini" (Brisson 1760): based on "Puffinus" of Jonston 1650-1653, and Sibbald 1684, “Puffin of the Isle of Man” of Willughby 1676, and "Shear-Water" of Ray 1713; "Puffinus Brisson, Orn., 1, 1760, p. 56; 6, p. 130. Type, by tautonymy, Puffinus [puffinus] Brisson = Procellaria puffinus Brünnich." (Peters 1931, 1, 53).
Var. Pufflnus.
Synon. Alphapuffinus, Cinathisma, Cymotomus, Microzalias, Nectris, Reinholdia, Rhipornis, Thyellas, Zalias.
● (syn. Fratercula Ϯ Atlantic Puffin F. arctica)  "Puffin, (Puffinus, Will.)   Common Puffin    Puffinus flavirostris, (W.)" (C. T. Wood 1836).

puffinus
English name Puffin (c. 1508), applied to the cured carcass of the nestling shearwater; ex “Skrabe” of Debes 1676, “Puffin of the Isle of Man” of Willughby 1676, and Puffinus Brisson 1760 (Puffinus).

lherminieri
● Félix Louis l’Herminier (1779-1833) French military chemist, naturalist on Guadeloupe 1798-1829 (syn. Cinclocerthia tremula, syn. Onychoprion fuscatus, syn. Parkesia noveboracensis, ?syn. Platyrinchus platyrhynchos, Puffinus).
● Dr Ferdinand Joseph l'Herminier (1802-1866) French osteologist, ornithologist on Guadeloupe (Turdus).

SUBSPECIES

Audubon's Shearwater (lherminieri)
SCI Name: Puffinus lherminieri lherminieri
lherminieri
● Félix Louis l’Herminier (1779-1833) French military chemist, naturalist on Guadeloupe 1798-1829 (syn. Cinclocerthia tremula, syn. Onychoprion fuscatus, syn. Parkesia noveboracensis, ?syn. Platyrinchus platyrhynchos, Puffinus).
● Dr Ferdinand Joseph l'Herminier (1802-1866) French osteologist, ornithologist on Guadeloupe (Turdus).

Audubon's Shearwater (loyemilleri)
SCI Name: Puffinus lherminieri loyemilleri
loyei / loyemilleri
Prof. Loye Holmes Miller (1874-1970) US zoologist, palaeontologist (subsp. Molothrus aeneus, syn. Puffinus lherminieri).