Great Shearwater / Ardenna gravis
WBN 
Great Shearwater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Procellaria Gravis Voy.GreenlandAdj.Seas p.140 pl.12 fig.1
Taxonomy: Procellariiformes / Procellariidae / Ardenna
Taxonomy Code: greshe
Type Locality: Cape Farewell and Staten Hook to Newfoundland.
Author: O''Reilly
Publish Year: 1818
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ARDENNA
(Procellariidae; † Great Shearwater A. gravis) Late Med. L. Ardenna name given to the Diomedean birds (Aldrovandus 1603) (Ray 1678, has "Artenna"). According to Capponi 1979, Ardènna and Artènna are Italian dialect names (based on ardea) for a shearwater; "Genera et Species typicae. ... c. *Ardenna Aldrov. maior (Puff. — Faber) Rchb. Ic. Av. t. 14. ic. 770 et 768—69." (Reichenbach 1853); "Ardenna Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852 (1853), p. iv. Type, by original designation, Puffinus maior Faber = Puffinus gravis O'Reilly." (Peters, 1931, I, 53); "Ardenna Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., p. iv, 1852 (1853)—type, by orig. desig., Puffinus major Reichenbach (not of Faber [= Puffinus puffinus]) = Procellaria gravis O'Reilly." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (2), p. 63).
Synon. Hemipuffinus, Neonectris, Paranectris, Thyellodroma, Thyellus.
gravis
L. gravis heavy, weighty.
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)
