White-capped Albatross
White-capped Albatross
Here the details of the White-capped Albatross named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Diomedea cauta Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1840) (1840), Pt8 no.95 p.177
Taxonomy: Procellariiformes / Diomedeidae / Thalassarche
Taxonomy Code: whcalb1
Type Locality: Bass Strait.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1841
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
THALASSARCHE
(Diomedeidae; Ϯ Black-browed Albatross T. melanophris) Gr. θαλασσα thalassa, θαλασσης thalassēs sea; αρχη arkhē power, command < αρχω arkhō to govern; "Genera et Species typicæ. ... c. *Thalassarche Rchb. melanophrys (Diomed. — T.) Rchb. Ic. Av. t. 26. ic. 346 et t. 28. ic. 797—798. t. 27. ic. 2614—15 et t. 28. ic. 796. t.29. ic. 799—800." (Reichenbach 1853); "Thalassarche Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., p. v, "1852" (= 1853)—type, by monotypy [= by original designation], Diomedea melanophris Temminck." (Hellmayr & Conover 1948, XIII, 41).
Var. Thalassiarche.
Synon. Diomedella, Nealbatrus, Thalassogeron.
cauta
L. cautus careful, wary < cavere to beware.
● “The present bird differs from all the other species in the extreme caution with which it avoids rather than approaches the neighbourhood of vessels at sea” (Gould 1841) (Thalassarche).
SUBSPECIES
White-capped Albatross (cauta)
SCI Name: Thalassarche cauta cauta
cauta
L. cautus careful, wary < cavere to beware.
● “The present bird differs from all the other species in the extreme caution with which it avoids rather than approaches the neighbourhood of vessels at sea” (Gould 1841) (Thalassarche).
White-capped Albatross (steadi)
SCI Name: Thalassarche cauta steadi
steadi
Edgar Fraser Stead (1881-1949) New Zealand field naturalist (syn. Petroica australis rakiura, syn. Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandiae, syn. Phalacrocorax punctatus, syn. Procellaria aequinoctialis, Thalassarche).
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)