Short-tailed Albatross

SCI Name:  Phoebastria albatrus
Protonym:  Diomedea albatrus Spic.Zool. 1 fasc.5 p.28
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Diomedeidae / Phoebastria
Taxonomy Code:  shtalb
Type Locality:  off Kamchatka.
Author:  Pallas
Publish Year:  1769
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

PHOEBASTRIA
(Diomedeidae; Ϯ Short-tailed Albatross P. albatrus) Gr. φοιβαστρια phoibastria  prophetess  < φοιβος phoibos  prophet (see Phoebetria); "Genera et Species typicæ.  ...   4. a. *Phoebastria Rchb. brachyura (Diomedea - T.) Rchb.  Ic. Av. t. 26. ic. 345. t. 27. ic. 2616." (Reichenbach 1853); "Phoebastria Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., p. v, "1852" (= 1853)—type, by monotypy [= by original designation], Diomedea brachyura Temminck = Diomedea albatrus Pallas." (Hellmayr & Conover 1948, XIII, 41).
Var. Phaebastria.
Synon. Galapagornis, Julietata, Laysanornis, Penthirenia.

albatrus
German Albatros  albatross (Phoebastria).

Albatrus
(Diomedeidae; syn. Diomedea † Wandering Albatross D. exulans) French Albatros  albatross; Albatross and its European equivalents are the definitive spellings of a word that has undergone dramatic corruption since its birth in the Arabic name al qadus for the leathern bucket used in irrigation.  This name early Spanish and Portuguese explorers adopted as “Alcatras” or “Alcaduz” and gave to the pelican Pelecanus, with reference to its capacious bill.  The name was mistakenly identified and applied vaguely to other large water-birds, firstly by English navigators to the frigatebirds Fregata and finally, via Alcatraza, Alcatraze, Algatross, and Albitross, to the present species of this family (cf. “The name is thought to derive from the Portuguese word alcatraz, meaning pelican (itself a corruption of the Arabic al-gattas, meaning diver or plunger)” (Moore 2006)); "Genus Albatri.  Genre de l'Albatros" (Brisson 1760): based on "Vaisseau de Guerre" of Albin 1731-1738 (?= Fregata), "Plautus Albatrus" of Klein 1750, "Albatross" of Edwards 1751, and Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758; "Albatrus Brisson, Orn., 1, p. 54; 6, p. 126, 1760—type, by monotypy, "Albatrus" Brisson = Diomedea exulans Linnaeus." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (2), p. 41).