Small St. Helena Petrel / Bulweria bifax
WBN Small St. Helena Petrel
SCI Name:
Protonym: Smiths.Contrib.Paleobiol. 23 p.17
Taxonomy: Procellariiformes / Procellariidae / Bulweria
Taxonomy Code: sshpet1
Type Locality:
Author: Olson
Publish Year: 1975
IUCN Status: Extinct
DEFINITIONS
BULWERIA
(Procellariidae; Ϯ Bulwer's Petrel B. bulwerii) Revd. James Bulwer (1794-1879) Scottish naturalist on Madeira 1825-1826 (cf. specific name Procellaria bulwerii Jardine & Selby, 1828); "256. THALASSIDROMA, Vig. ... c. Bulweria, Bp. 521. T. BULWERI, Bp. Pr. bulweri, Jard. Gould t. 448. Atl. eur. praes. merid." (Bonaparte 1843); "184. Bulweria, Bp. (Thalassidroma, p. Gr.) Rostrum mediocre: pedes brevissimi, robusti: cauda cuneata. Majores. M. Afr. Eur. m. 1. PROCELLARIA columbina, Moquin. (anjinho, Heineken. - bulweri, Jardine. - Puffinus columbinus, Webb. - Thalassidroma bulweri, Gr. - Bulweria columbina, Bp.) Webb et Berth. Canar. Av. p. 44. t. 4. f. 2. ... PROCELLARIINARUM gigas, quamvis statura Turdi viscivori!" (Bonaparte 1857); "Bulweria Bonaparte, Nuov. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bologna, 8, 1842 ([publ. Jan. 14] 1843), p. 426. Type, by monotypy, Procellaria bulwerii Jardine and Selby." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 67).
bifax
L. bifax, bifacis two-faced < bi- two < bis twice; facies appearance (cf. fax, facis torch, flame).
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)
