Phoebastria Irrorata Bird

Phoebastria Irrorata Bird

Phoebastria Irrorata Bird

English Name:  Waved Albatross
Latin Name:  Phoebastria irrorata
Protonym:  Diomedea irrorata Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt3 p.430
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Diomedeidae / Phoebastria
Taxonomy Code:  wavalb
Type Locality:  Callao Bay, Peru.
Author:  Salvin
Publish Year:  1883
IUCN Status:  Critically Endangered

DEFINITIONS

PHOEBASTRIA
(Diomedeidae; Ϯ Short-tailed Albatross P. albatrus) Gr. φοιβαστρια phoibastria  prophetess  < φοιβος phoibos  prophet (see Phoebetria); "Genera et Species typicæ.  ...   4. a. *Phoebastria Rchb. brachyura (Diomedea - T.) Rchb.  Ic. Av. t. 26. ic. 345. t. 27. ic. 2616." (Reichenbach 1853); "Phoebastria Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., p. v, "1852" (= 1853)—type, by monotypy [= by original designation], Diomedea brachyura Temminck = Diomedea albatrus Pallas." (Hellmayr & Conover 1948, XIII, 41).
Var. Phaebastria.
Synon. Galapagornis, Julietata, Laysanornis, Penthirenia.

irrorata / irroratus
L. irroratus  bedewed, sprinkled  < irrorare  to bedew  < in  towards; rorare  to bedew.