White-faced Storm-Petrel

SCI Name:  Pelagodroma marina
Protonym:  Procellaria marina IndexOrn. 2 p.826
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Oceanitidae / Pelagodroma
Taxonomy Code:  wfspet
Type Locality:  Southern oceans = off the mouth of the Rio La Plata, lat. 35° S. - lat. 37° S. fide Murphy, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 50, 1924, p. 233.
Author:  Latham
Publish Year:  1790
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PELAGODROMA
(Oceanitidae; Ϯ White-faced Storm-petrel P. marina) Gr. πελαγοδρομος pelagodromos  flying over the sea, sea-running  < πελαγος pelagos  sea; -δρομος
-dromos  -runner  < τρεχω trekhō  to run; "Genera et Species typicæ.  ...  c. Pelagodroma Rchb. marina (Proc.— Forst.) Rchb.  Ic. Av. t. 16. ic. 784.  t. 18. ic. 2247—49." (Reichenbach 1853); "189. Pelagodroma, Reich. (Thalassidroma, p. Gr.)  Rostrum debile; tubo nasali breve, recurvo: alae elongatae: cauda vix emarginata: pedes tarsis valde elongatis; podiis latis; unguibus depressis, magnis lamelliformibus.  Cinereae.    Ocean. m.  1.   PROCELLARIA fregata, L. nec Forst. (aequorea, Solander. - marina, Lath. ex Forst. - hypoleuca, Webb. - Thalassidroma marina, Gr. - Pelagodroma marina, Reich. - Pel. fregata, Bp.)" (Bonaparte 1857).
Var. Pelagrodroma.

marina
L. marinus  marine  < mare, maris  sea.
● ex “Frigate Petrel” of Latham 1785 (Pelagodroma).
● See: marila

SUBSPECIES

White-faced Storm-Petrel (hypoleuca)
SCI Name: Pelagodroma marina hypoleuca
hypoleuca
Gr. ὑπο hupo beneath; λευκος leukos white (cf. ὑπολευκος hupoleukos whitish).
● ex “Pico triqueño” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 123 (syn. Sporophila leucoptera).
● Gr. ὑπερλευκος huperleukos exceedingly white; “The name hypoleucus was evidently a lapsus for hyperleucus” (Gadow 1883) (Gymnorhina).

White-faced Storm-Petrel (eadesorum)
SCI Name: Pelagodroma marina eadesorum
eadesi / eadesorum
Revd. Ernest Arthur David Eades (1919-2018) and his first wife Jessie Eades née Munn (d. 1974) British missionaries to the Cape Verde Is. 1948-1969 (subsp. Pelagodroma marina).

White-faced Storm-Petrel (marina)
SCI Name: Pelagodroma marina marina
marina
L. marinus  marine  < mare, maris  sea.
● ex “Frigate Petrel” of Latham 1785 (Pelagodroma).
● See: marila

White-faced Storm-Petrel (dulciae)
SCI Name: Pelagodroma marina dulciae
dulciae / dulciei
Dulcie Mirian Wynne (1894-1977) step-daughter of Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews (subsp. Pelagodroma marina, syn. Phylidonyris niger gouldii, syn. Psephotellus varius, syn. Ptilonorhynchus violaceus).

White-faced Storm-Petrel (maoriana)
SCI Name: Pelagodroma marina maoriana
maoriana / maorianus
Maori, the peoples of New Zealand.

White-faced Storm-Petrel (albiclunis)
SCI Name: Pelagodroma marina albiclunis
albiclunis
L. albus white; clunis buttock, haunch.