Least Storm-Petrel / Oceanodroma microsoma

Least Storm-Petrel / Oceanodroma microsoma

Least Storm-Petrel

SCI Name:  Oceanodroma microsoma
Protonym:  Halocyptena microsoma Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 16 p.79
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Hydrobatidae /
Taxonomy Code:  lsspet
Type Locality:  San Jose del Caba, Baja California.
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Publish Year:  1864
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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. OceanododromaOceandodroma.

microsoma
Gr. μικρος mikros  small; σωμα sōma, σωματος sōmatos  body; "This diminutive species hardly exceeds in size the little [Hydrobates] pelagica and is at the same time much slenderer and more delicate in form than that species" (Coues 1864) (Hydrobates).