Light-mantled Albatross / Phoebetria palpebrata
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Light-mantled Albatross
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Protonym: Diomedea palpebrata Mem.Math.Phys.Acad.Sci.Paris 10 p.571 pl.15
Taxonomy: Procellariiformes / Diomedeidae / Phoebetria
Taxonomy Code: limalb1
Type Locality: 'depuis le degre quarante-septieme de latitude australe jusqu''au soixanteonzieme et dix minutes'' = south of Prince Edward and Marion Islands, fide Mathews, 1934, Novit. Zool., 39, p. 157.
Author: Forster, JR
Publish Year: 1785
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
PHOEBETRIA
(Diomedeidae; Ϯ Light-mantled Albatross P. palpebrata) Gr. φοεβητρια phoebētria prophetess, soothsayer < φοιβος phoibos prophet; “These words are with great propriety and correct sentiment applied to albatrosses, the import of whose weird presaging will be felt by one who reads Coleridge’s Antient Mariner, or himself goes down the deep in ships” (Coues 1882) (see also Cocker & Tipling 2013, 99-103); "Genera et Species typicæ. ... b. *Phoebetria Rchb. fuliginosa (Diom. — L. Gm.) Rchb. Ic. Av. t. 26. ic. 348. t. 27. ic. 2613." (Reichenbach 1853); "Phoebetria Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852 (1853), p. v. Type, by original designation, Diomedea fuliginosa Gmelin = Diomedea palpebrata Forster." (Peters 1931, 1, 45).
Var. Phaebetria.
palpebrata
Mod. L. palpebratus eye-lidded < L. palpebra eyelid < palpare to flatter.
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)
