Monteiro’s Storm-Petrel / Oceanodroma monteiroi

Monteiro\'s Storm-Petrel / Oceanodroma monteiroi

Monteiro's Storm-Petrel

SCI Name:  Oceanodroma monteiroi
Protonym:   Ibis 150 717-727
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Hydrobatidae /
Taxonomy Code:  monstp1
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Publish Year:  2008
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DEFINITIONS

Oceanodroma
(syn. Hydrobates Ϯ Fork-tailed Storm-petrel H. furcata) Gr. ωκεανος ōkeanos  ocean; -δρομος -dromos  -runner  < τρεχω trekhō  to run; "Genera et Species typicæ.  ...  d. Oceanodroma Rchb. furcata (Proc. — L. Gm.)  Ic. Av. t. 16. ic. 785.  t. 18. ic. 2245—46." (Reichenbach 1853); "185. Oceanodroma, Reich. (Thalassidroma, p. Gr.)  Rostrum majusculum; tubo nasali recto: alae modicae: cauda furcata: pedes breves, podiis angustis; unguibus parvulis, compressis.  Dilute cinereae.    M. Atl. et Pac.  2.   1. PROCELLARIA furcata, Gm.   ...   2. THALASSIDROMA hornbyi, Gr." (Bonaparte 1857).    Var. OceanododromaOceandodroma.

monteiri / monteiroi
● Joaquim João Monteiro (1833-1878) Portuguese mining engineer, collector in Angola 1858-1875 (subsp. Cecropis senegalensis, Clytospiza, Malaconotus, Tockus).
● Dr Luis Monteiro (1962-1999) Portuguese ecotoxicologist, ornithologist (Hydrobates).