Thalassarche Chlororhynchos Bird

English Name:  Yellow-nosed Albatross
Latin Name:  Thalassarche chlororhynchos
Protonym:  Diomedea chlororhynchos Syst.Nat. 1 pt2 p.568
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Diomedeidae / Thalassarche
Taxonomy Code:  yenalb
Type Locality:  Cape of Good Hope.
Author:  Gmelin, JF
Publish Year:  1789
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.

chlororhyncha / chlororhynchos / chlororhynchus
Gr. χλωρος khlōros  yellow; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.
● ex “Yellow-nosed Albatros” of Latham 1785 (Thalassarche).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-nosed Albatross (Atlantic)
Latin Name: Thalassarche chlororhynchos chlororhynchos
chlororhyncha / chlororhynchos / chlororhynchus
Gr. χλωρος khlōros  yellow; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.
● ex “Yellow-nosed Albatros” of Latham 1785 (Thalassarche).

Yellow-nosed Albatross (Indian)
Latin Name: Thalassarche chlororhynchos carteri
carteri
Thomas Carter (1863-1931) English ornithologist, collector, pastoralist, explorer in Australia 1886-1921 (subsp. Amytornis textilis, syn. Aquila audax, syn. Calamanthus montanellus, syn. Calidris alba, syn. Chalcites lucidus plagosus, subsp. Chlamydera guttata, syn. Colluricincla harmonica rufiventris, syn. Egretta sacra, subsp. Hirundo neoxena, subsp. Neophema elegans, Poodytes, subsp. Ptilotula penicillata, syn. Purpureicephalus spurius, syn. Rhipidura leucophrys, Thalassarche).