Buller’s Albatross / Thalassarche bulleri
WBN 
Buller's Albatross
SCI Name:
Protonym: Diomedea bulleri Bull.Br.Orn.Club 1 p.58
Taxonomy: Procellariiformes / Diomedeidae / Thalassarche
Taxonomy Code: bulalb2
Type Locality: New Zealand.
Author: Rothschild
Publish Year: 1893
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
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.
bulleri
● Sir Walter Lawry Buller (1838-1906) New Zealand barrister, ornithologist, collector (syn. Anthochaera carunculata (ex Mimus carunculatus Buller, 1865), syn. Apteryx mantelli, Ardenna, Larus (ex Bruchigavia melanorhyncha Buller, 1869), syn. Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus, syn. Petroica australis, Thalassarche).
● Kenneth Gordon Buller (1915-1995) English collector, emigrated to Australia 1926, taxidermist at Western Australian Mus., Perth (syn. Pachycephala lanioides carnarvoni).
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)
