Black-capped Petrel
Black-capped Petrel
Here the details of the Black-capped Petrel named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Procellaria hasitata Beitr.Zool.Vergleich.Anat. 1 p.142
Taxonomy: Procellariiformes / Procellariidae / Pterodroma
Taxonomy Code: bkcpet
Type Locality: no locality.
Author: Kuhl
Publish Year: 1820
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
PTERODROMA
(Procellariidae; Ϯ Great-winged Petrel P. macroptera) Gr. πτερον pteron wing; -δρομος -dromos -racer, -runner < τρεχω trekhō to run; the gadfly petrels were so named with reference to their fast weaving flight, as if pursued by horseflies; "1. FULMAREÆ. ... *4. Pterodroma, Bp. 14. fuliginosa, Banks. (grisea, Kuhl nec Gm. lugens? Soland. atlantica, Gould.) 15. macroptera, Smith. (brevirostris, Less.) 16. aterrima, Verr. (carbonaria? Solander.)" (Bonaparte 1856); "Pterodroma, Bp. (Thalassoica? p. Gr. - Procellaria, p. Hombr. et Jacq. - Ossifraga, p. Reich.) Rostrum brevissimum, curvum, valde compressum: cauda cuneata. Nigrae. Cum genere BULWERIA Procellariearum analogiam praebent. Parvulae inter congeneres conveniunt quippe statura cum gigantibus illis propriae sectionis. M. ant. pr. Afr. 3. 1. PROCELLARIA macroptera, Smith. ... 2. PROCELLARIA FULIGINOSA, Banks, nec Lath. ... *3. PROCELLARIA aterrima, Verr." (Bonaparte 1857); "Pterodroma Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, 1856, p. 768. Type, by subsequent designation, Procellaria macroptera A. Smith (Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 137)." (Peters 1931, I, 60).
Var. Petrodroma, Pterodrome.
Synon. Aestrelata, Cookilaria, Hallstroma, Oestrelatella, Proaestrelata, Rhantistes.
hasitata
L. haesitatus faltering, hesitating < haesitare to stick fast.
SUBSPECIES
Black-capped Petrel (hasitata)
SCI Name: Pterodroma hasitata hasitata
hasitata
L. haesitatus faltering, hesitating < haesitare to stick fast.
Black-capped Petrel (Jamaican)
SCI Name: Pterodroma hasitata caribbaea
caribaea / caribaearum / caribaeus / caribbaea / caribbaeus / caribbeus / caribboeus / caribeus / cariboea
Caribbean Sea (named after the Carib, an Amerindian people of the Lesser Antilles and northern South America).
● Antilles (= Guadeloupe); ex “Esmerillon Gry-Gry” of Dutertre 1667, and “Esmerillon des Antilles” of Brisson 1760 (subsp. Falco sparverius).
● Caribbean Is.; ex “Pigeon à queue annelée de la Jamaïque” of Brisson 1760 (Patagioenas).
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)