Gray-backed Storm-Petrel / Garrodia nereis
WBN 
Gray-backed Storm-Petrel
SCI Name:
Protonym: Thalassidroma Nereis Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1840) (1840), Pt8 no.95 p.178
Taxonomy: Procellariiformes / Oceanitidae / Garrodia
Taxonomy Code: gybstp1
Type Locality: Bass Strait, Australia.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1841
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
GARRODIA
(Oceanitidae; Ϯ Grey-backed Storm-petrel G. nereis) Alfred Henry Garrod (1846-1879) English zoologist, anatomist. "Thalassidroma fregata # ... #The birds so called here and elsewhere (supra, pp. 175 and 204) are, as I have lately shown ("Proceedings of the Zoological Society," 1881, June 21st), specimens of the Thalassidroma nereis of Gould, which I have made the type of a new genus, Garrodia, in memory of the author of these papers." (Forbes 1881); "Garrodia Forbes, Coll. Sci. Papers of Garrod, 1881, p. 521, note. Type, by original designation and monotypy, Thalassidroma nereis Gould." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 71).
Var. Garodia.
nereis
L. nereis, nereidis nereid, sea-nymph, daughter of the sea-god Nereus (Garrodia, Sternula).
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)
