Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel

SCI Name:  Oceanodroma tethys
Protonym:  Thalassidroma Tethys Tageb.Dtsch.Naturf.AertzeWiesbaden Beilage 7 p.89
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Hydrobatidae / Oceanodroma
Taxonomy Code:  wrspet
Type Locality:  Galapagos Islands.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1852
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

tethys
Gr. myth. Tethys, the supreme sea-goddess, daughter of Uranus and Gaia, wife to Oceanus, and mother of the Oceanides (Hydrobates).

SUBSPECIES

Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel (tethys)
SCI Name: Oceanodroma tethys tethys
tethys
Gr. myth. Tethys, the supreme sea-goddess, daughter of Uranus and Gaia, wife to Oceanus, and mother of the Oceanides (Hydrobates).

Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel (kelsalli)
SCI Name: Oceanodroma tethys kelsalli
kelsalli
Col. Harry Joseph Kelsall (1867-1950) British Army, ornithologist, plant-collector in Malaysia, Sierra Leone, Colombia and the Pacific 1892-1925 (subsp. Camaroptera chloronota, subsp. Fraseria ocreata, subsp. Hydrobates tethys).