Sula Nebouxii Bird

English Name:  Blue-footed Booby
Latin Name:  Sula nebouxii
Protonym:  Sula Nebouxii Ann.Sci.Nat.Zool.(6), 13 art.4 p.37 pl.14
Taxonomy:  Suliformes / Sulidae / Sula
Taxonomy Code:  bfoboo
Type Locality:  Pacific coast of America. Type assumed from Chile.
Author:  Milne-Edwards, A
Publish Year:  1882
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SULA
(Sulidae; Ϯ Brown Booby S. leucogaster) Norwegian name Sula for a gannet  < Old Norse Súla. The suppositions that this name is derived either from Gr. συλαω sulaō  to rob, or from Gaelic souler  sharp-sighted, are erroneous. In fact, the gannets Morus no longer hold this generic tag, which is restricted to the tropical and subtropical boobies; "LE FOU.  ...  SULA" (Brisson 1760): based on "Booby" of Catesby 1731, "Stultus" of Barrère 1741 and 1745, "Plancus Morus" of Klein 1750, and Pelecanus Piscator Linnaeus, 1758; "Sula, Brisson, Orn., 1, 1760, p. 60; 6, 1760, p. 494. Type, by tautonymy, "Sula" = Sula leucogaster Boddaert." (Peters 1931, I, 83).   
Var. Suca.   
Synon. Abeltera, Anaethetus, Dysporus, Hemisula, Parasula, Piscatrix, Prophalacrocorax, Pseudosula, Sularius.

sula
● Sula-Besi, Sula Is., Moluccas (Edolisoma).
● Norwegian name Sula for a gannet < Old Norse Súla; ex “Anseri bassano congener fusca avis” of Ray 1713, and Sloane 1725, “Booby” of Catesby 1731, “Anaethetus major melinus, subtus albidus, rostro serrato” of Browne 1756, and “Sula” or “Fou” of Brisson 1760 (Sula).

nebouxi / nebouxii
Surgeon-Maj. Adolphe-Simon Neboux (1806-1885) French naval surgeon, explorer, naturalist (syn. Mimus patagonicus, subsp. Procelsterna cerulea, syn. Ptilinopus purpuratus, Sula).

SUBSPECIES

Blue-footed Booby (nebouxii)
Latin Name: Sula nebouxii nebouxii
nebouxi / nebouxii
Surgeon-Maj. Adolphe-Simon Neboux (1806-1885) French naval surgeon, explorer, naturalist (syn. Mimus patagonicus, subsp. Procelsterna cerulea, syn. Ptilinopus purpuratus, Sula).

Blue-footed Booby (excisa)
Latin Name: Sula nebouxii excisa
excisa / excisus
L. excisus  removed, banished  < excidere  to be cut out  < caedere  to cut down.