Tristram’s Storm-Petrel / Oceanodroma tristrami

Tristram\'s Storm-Petrel / Oceanodroma tristrami

Tristram's Storm-Petrel

SCI Name:  Oceanodroma tristrami
Protonym:  Oceanodroma tristrami Cat.BirdsBrit.Mus. 25 p.347,354
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Hydrobatidae /
Taxonomy Code:  trspet
Type Locality:  Sendai Bay, Japan.
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Publish Year:  1896
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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.

tristrami / tristramii
Revd. Henry Baker Tristram (1822-1906) Canon of Durham, traveller, naturalist, antiquarian, early supporter of Darwin (syn. Coenocorypha aucklandica, Dicaeum, syn. Edolisoma salomonis (ex Edoliisoma salomonis Tristram, 1879), EmberizaHydrobates, subsp. Micropsitta finschii, Myzomela, Onychognathus, ‡subsp. Ptilinopus mercierii, subsp. Todiramphus chloris).