Blue-footed Booby / Sula nebouxii
WBN 
Blue-footed Booby
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sula Nebouxii Ann.Sci.Nat.Zool.(6), 13 art.4 p.37 pl.14
Taxonomy: Suliformes / Sulidae / Sula
Taxonomy Code: bfoboo
Type Locality: Pacific coast of America. Type assumed from Chile.
Author: Milne-Edwards, A
Publish Year: 1882
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SULA
(Sulidae; Ϯ Brown Booby S. leucogaster) Norwegian name Sula for a gannet < Old Norse Súla. The suppositions that this name is derived either from Gr. συλαω sulaō to rob, or from Gaelic souler sharp-sighted, are erroneous. In fact, the gannets Morus no longer hold this generic tag, which is restricted to the tropical and subtropical boobies; "LE FOU. ... SULA" (Brisson 1760): based on "Booby" of Catesby 1731, "Stultus" of Barrère 1741 and 1745, "Plancus Morus" of Klein 1750, and Pelecanus Piscator Linnaeus, 1758; "Sula, Brisson, Orn., 1, 1760, p. 60; 6, 1760, p. 494. Type, by tautonymy, "Sula" = Sula leucogaster Boddaert." (Peters 1931, I, 83).
Var. Suca.
Synon. Abeltera, Anaethetus, Dysporus, Hemisula, Parasula, Piscatrix, Prophalacrocorax, Pseudosula, Sularius.
sula
● Sula-Besi, Sula Is., Moluccas (Edolisoma).
● Norwegian name Sula for a gannet < Old Norse Súla; ex “Anseri bassano congener fusca avis” of Ray 1713, and Sloane 1725, “Booby” of Catesby 1731, “Anaethetus major melinus, subtus albidus, rostro serrato” of Browne 1756, and “Sula” or “Fou” of Brisson 1760 (Sula).
nebouxi / nebouxii
Surgeon-Maj. Adolphe-Simon Neboux (1806-1885) French naval surgeon, explorer, naturalist (syn. Mimus patagonicus, subsp. Procelsterna cerulea, syn. Ptilinopus purpuratus, Sula).
SUBSPECIES
Blue-footed Booby (nebouxii)
SCI Name: Sula nebouxii nebouxii
nebouxi / nebouxii
Surgeon-Maj. Adolphe-Simon Neboux (1806-1885) French naval surgeon, explorer, naturalist (syn. Mimus patagonicus, subsp. Procelsterna cerulea, syn. Ptilinopus purpuratus, Sula).
Blue-footed Booby (excisa)
SCI Name: Sula nebouxii excisa
excisa / excisus
L. excisus removed, banished < excidere to be cut out < caedere to cut down.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
