Pagodroma Nivea Bird

English Name:  Snow Petrel
Latin Name:  Pagodroma nivea
Protonym:  Procellaria nivea Voy.World 1 p.96,98
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Procellariidae / Pagodroma
Taxonomy Code:  snopet1
Type Locality:  lat. 52° S., long. 20° E.
Author:  Forster, G
Publish Year:  1777
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PAGODROMA
(Procellariidae; Ϯ Snow Petrel P. nivea) Gr. παγος pagos  frost, sea-ice; -δρομος -dromos  -runner  < τρεχω trekhō  to run; "I. FULMAREÆ.  ...  3. Pagodroma, Bp.  17. nivea, Gm." (Bonaparte 1856 (Comptes Rend.)); "181. Pagodroma, Bp. (Thalassoica, p. Reich.) Rostrum brevissimum: unguis posticus validissimus!  Color candidus!  Analogiam praebet cum Larino genere PAGOPHILA et Sternino GYGI!    M. antarct.  1.   PROCELLARIA nivea, Gm." (Bonaparte 1857 (Conspectus)); "Pagodroma Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, 1856, p. 768. Type, by monotypy, Procellaria nivea Forster." (Peters 1931, I, 67).

nivea
L. niveus snow-white < nix, nivis snow.
● ex “Chouette Blanche” of Levaillant 1799, pl. 45 (syn. Nyctea scandiaca).
● ex “Snowy Petrel” of Cook 1775 (Pagodroma).
● ex “Goéland blanc du Spitzberg” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 994, and “Mouette blanche” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Pagophila eburnea).
● ex “Cotinga blanc de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 793 (syn. Procnias alba).

SUBSPECIES

Snow Petrel (nivea)
Latin Name: Pagodroma nivea nivea
nivea
L. niveus snow-white < nix, nivis snow.
● ex “Chouette Blanche” of Levaillant 1799, pl. 45 (syn. Nyctea scandiaca).
● ex “Snowy Petrel” of Cook 1775 (Pagodroma).
● ex “Goéland blanc du Spitzberg” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 994, and “Mouette blanche” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Pagophila eburnea).
● ex “Cotinga blanc de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 793 (syn. Procnias alba).

Snow Petrel (major)
Latin Name: Pagodroma nivea major
major
L. maior, maioris  greater, larger  < comp. magnus  great, large, powerful.
● ex “Poule d’eau de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 352; “Even if [Statius Müller, 1776] ...should some day be repudiated by ornithologists on account of his carelessness and his apparent colour-blindness, then the proper name of the species would be Aramides major (Boddaert), founded on Daubenton’s plate” (Sharpe 1894) (syn. Aramides cajanea).
● ex “Grand Corbeau” of Levaillant 1800, pl. 51 (unident.;?Corvus sp.).
● ex “Crotophagus major” of Brisson 1760, “Grand bout de Petun” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 102, fig. 1, “Ani des palétuviers” of Salerne 1767, and “Greater Ani” of Latham 1781 (Crotophaga).
● 54. PICUS.  ...  major.  10. P. albo nigroque varius, ano occipiteque rubro.  Picus albo nigroque varius, rectricibus tribus lateralibus utrinque albescentibus. Fn. svec. 81.  Picus varius major. Ges. av. 708. Aldr. ornith. l. 12. c. 32. Will. orn. 94. t. 21. Raj. av. 43. Alb. av. I. p. 19. t. 19. Frisch. av. . . t. 36. f. 1.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Dendrocopos).
● ex “Grande Egrette d’Amérique” of d’Aubenton, 1765-1781, pl. 925 (syn. Egretta garzetta).
● ex “Scolopax media” of Frisch 1733-1763, “Great Snipe” of Pennant 1768, and Latham 1785 (syn. Gallinago media).
● ex “Grand Indicateur, mâle” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 241, fig. 1 (syn. Indicator indicator).
● ex “Pie-grièche Blanchot” of Levaillant 1810, pl. 285 (syn. Malaconotus blanchoti).
● ex “An other sort of Loggerhead” of Sloane 1707-1725, “Sitta” or “Picus cinereus major, rostro curvo” of Ray 1713, “Grand Sittelle à bec crochu” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Great Nuthatch” of Latham 1781 (?syn. Myiarchus validus).
● ex “Parus major” of Gessner 1555, Belon 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Fringillago”, “Great Titmouse” or “Ox Eye” of Ray 1713, and Albin 1731, and “Parus capite nigro, temporibus albis, nucha luteis” of Linnaeus 1746 (Parus).
● ex “Grèbe de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 404, fig. 1, and “Grand Grèbe” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Podiceps).
● ex “Barbican des côtes de Barbarie” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 602 (syn. Pogonornis dubius).
● ex “Grande Quiscale” of Vieillot 1819 (Quiscalus).
● ex “Tangara des grands bois de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 205 (syn. Saltator maximus).
● ex “Batara mayor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 211 (Taraba).
● ex “Macucagua” of Marcgrave 1648, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, “Perdix brasiliensis” of Brisson 1760, and “Magoua” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Tinamus).
● ex “Trepadore grande” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 241 (Xiphocolaptes).