Leach's Storm-Petrel

SCI Name:  Oceanodroma leucorhoa
Protonym:  Procellaria leucorhoa Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat.(1817) (1817), 25 p.422
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Hydrobatidae / Oceanodroma
Taxonomy Code:  lcspet
Type Locality:  maritime parts of Picardy.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1818
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

Oceanodroma
(syn. Hydrobates Ϯ Fork-tailed Storm-petrel H. furcata) Gr. ωκεανος ōkeanos  ocean; -δρομος -dromos  -runner  < τρεχω trekhō  to run; "Genera et Species typicæ.  ...  d. Oceanodroma Rchb. furcata (Proc. — L. Gm.)  Ic. Av. t. 16. ic. 785.  t. 18. ic. 2245—46." (Reichenbach 1853); "185. Oceanodroma, Reich. (Thalassidroma, p. Gr.)  Rostrum majusculum; tubo nasali recto: alae modicae: cauda furcata: pedes breves, podiis angustis; unguibus parvulis, compressis.  Dilute cinereae.    M. Atl. et Pac.  2.   1. PROCELLARIA furcata, Gm.   ...   2. THALASSIDROMA hornbyi, Gr." (Bonaparte 1857).    Var. Oceanododroma, Oceandodroma.

leucorhoa / leucorhous
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; ορρος orrhos  rump.
● ex “Martinet à Croupion Blanc” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 244, fig. 1 (?syn. Apus caffer).
● ex “Cul-blanc du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 583, fig. 2, “Motteux du Sénégal” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Rufous Wheat-ear” of Latham 1783 (subsp. Oenanthe oenanthe).

SUBSPECIES

Leach's Storm-Petrel (Leach's)
SCI Name: Oceanodroma leucorhoa leucorhoa
leucorhoa / leucorhous
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; ορρος orrhos  rump.
● ex “Martinet à Croupion Blanc” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 244, fig. 1 (?syn. Apus caffer).
● ex “Cul-blanc du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 583, fig. 2, “Motteux du Sénégal” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Rufous Wheat-ear” of Latham 1783 (subsp. Oenanthe oenanthe).

Leach's Storm-Petrel (Chapman's)
SCI Name: Oceanodroma leucorhoa chapmani
chapmani
Frank Michler Chapman (1864-1945) US ornithologist, Curator of Ornithology AMNH 1908-1942, collector (Calidris, Chaetura, subsp. Chordeiles minor, subsp. Conopophaga castaneiceps, syn. Crax rubra, subsp. Formicivora rufa, syn. Gallinago jamesoni, syn. Hemispingus melanotis piurae, subsp. Hydrobates leucorhous, subsp. Mecocerculus leucophrys, subsp. Micropygia schomburgkii, subsp. Myiodynastes maculatus, subsp. Myiothlypis coronata, syn. Odontophorus gujanensis marmoratus, syn. Pachyramphus polychopterus dorsalis, subsp. Patagioenas plumbea, syn. Petrochelidon rufocollaris aequatorialis,  Pogonotriccus, subsp. Pulsatrix perspicillata, subsp. Pyrrhura melanura, subsp. Schistes geoffroyi, subsp. Sicalis luteola, syn. Synallaxis brachyura nigrofumosa).