Providence Petrel / Pterodroma solandri

Providence Petrel / Pterodroma solandri

Providence Petrel

SCI Name:  Pterodroma solandri
Protonym:  Procellaria Solandri Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt12 no.133 p.57
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Procellariidae /
Taxonomy Code:  solpet1
Type Locality:  no locality = Bass Strait, fide Gould, 1844, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 13, p. 363.
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Publish Year:  1844
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DEFINITIONS

PTERODROMA
(Procellariidae; Ϯ Great-winged Petrel P. macroptera) Gr. πτερον pteron  wing; -δρομος -dromos  -racer, -runner  < τρεχω trekhō  to run; the gadfly petrels were so named with reference to their fast weaving flight, as if pursued by horseflies; "1. FULMAREÆ.  ...  *4. Pterodroma, Bp.   14. fuliginosa, Banks. (grisea, Kuhl nec Gm.  lugens? Soland.  atlantica, Gould.)   15. macroptera, Smith.  (brevirostris, Less.)   16. aterrima, Verr.  (carbonaria? Solander.)" (Bonaparte 1856); "Pterodroma, Bp. (Thalassoica? p. Gr. - Procellaria, p. Hombr. et Jacq. - Ossifraga, p. Reich.) Rostrum brevissimum, curvum, valde compressum: cauda cuneata. Nigrae.  Cum genere BULWERIA Procellariearum analogiam praebent. Parvulae inter congeneres conveniunt quippe statura cum gigantibus illis propriae sectionis.    M. ant. pr. Afr.  3.    1. PROCELLARIA macroptera, Smith.   ...   2. PROCELLARIA FULIGINOSA, Banks, nec Lath.   ...   *3. PROCELLARIA aterrima, Verr." (Bonaparte 1857); "Pterodroma Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, 1856, p. 768. Type, by subsequent designation, Procellaria macroptera A. Smith (Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 137)." (Peters 1931, I, 60).
Var. PetrodromaPterodrome
Synon. Aestrelata, Cookilaria, Hallstroma, Oestrelatella, Proaestrelata, Rhantistes.

solanderi / solandri
Dr Daniel Carl Solander (1733-1782) Swedish pupil of Linnaeus, naturalist, collector who accompanied Capt. Cook 1768-1771 (syn. Calyptorhynchus lathami, syn. Macronectes giganteus, syn. Pachyptila belcheri, Pterodroma).