Small St. Helena Petrel

Small St. Helena Petrel

Here the details of the Small St. Helena Petrel named bird below:

SCI Name:  Bulweria bifax
Protonym:   Smiths.Contrib.Paleobiol. 23 p.17
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Procellariidae /
Taxonomy Code:  sshpet1
Type Locality:  
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Publish Year:  1975
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DEFINITIONS

BULWERIA
(Procellariidae; Ϯ Bulwer's Petrel B. bulwerii) Revd. James Bulwer (1794-1879) Scottish naturalist on Madeira 1825-1826 (cf. specific name Procellaria bulwerii Jardine & Selby, 1828); "256. THALASSIDROMA, Vig.  ...   c. Bulweria, Bp.   521. T. BULWERI, Bp.  Pr. bulweri, Jard.  Gould t. 448.    Atl. eur. praes. merid." (Bonaparte 1843); "184. Bulweria, Bp. (Thalassidroma, p. Gr.)  Rostrum mediocre: pedes brevissimi, robusti: cauda cuneata.  Majores.    M. Afr. Eur. m.  1.    PROCELLARIA columbina, Moquin. (anjinho, Heineken. - bulweri, Jardine. - Puffinus columbinus, Webb. - Thalassidroma bulweri, Gr. - Bulweria columbina, Bp.) Webb et Berth. Canar. Av. p. 44. t. 4. f. 2.  ...  PROCELLARIINARUM gigas, quamvis statura Turdi viscivori!" (Bonaparte 1857);  "Bulweria Bonaparte, Nuov. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna, 8, 1842 ([publ. Jan. 14] 1843), p. 426. Type, by monotypy, Procellaria bulwerii Jardine and Selby." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 67).

bifax
L. bifax, bifacis  two-faced  < bi-  two  < bis  twice; facies  appearance (cf. fax, facis  torch, flame).