White-capped Albatross

SCI Name:  Thalassarche cauta
Protonym:  Diomedea cauta Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1840) (1840), Pt8 no.95 p.177
Taxonomy:  Procellariiformes / Diomedeidae / Thalassarche
Taxonomy Code:  whcalb1
Type Locality:  Bass Strait.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1841
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

THALASSARCHE
(Diomedeidae; Ϯ Black-browed Albatross T. melanophris) Gr. θαλασσα thalassa, θαλασσης thalassēs  sea; αρχη arkhē  power, command  < αρχω arkhō  to govern; "Genera et Species typicæ.  ...  c. *Thalassarche Rchb. melanophrys (Diomed. — T.) Rchb.  Ic. Av. t. 26. ic. 346 et t. 28. ic. 797—798.  t. 27. ic. 2614—15 et t. 28. ic. 796.  t.29. ic. 799—800." (Reichenbach 1853); "Thalassarche Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., p. v, "1852" (= 1853)—type, by monotypy [= by original designation], Diomedea melanophris Temminck." (Hellmayr & Conover 1948, XIII, 41).
Var. Thalassiarche.
Synon. Diomedella, Nealbatrus, Thalassogeron.

cauta
L. cautus  careful, wary  < cavere  to beware.
● “The present bird differs from all the other species in the extreme caution with which it avoids rather than approaches the neighbourhood of vessels at sea” (Gould 1841) (Thalassarche).

SUBSPECIES

White-capped Albatross (cauta)
SCI Name: Thalassarche cauta cauta
cauta
L. cautus  careful, wary  < cavere  to beware.
● “The present bird differs from all the other species in the extreme caution with which it avoids rather than approaches the neighbourhood of vessels at sea” (Gould 1841) (Thalassarche).

White-capped Albatross (steadi)
SCI Name: Thalassarche cauta steadi
steadi
Edgar Fraser Stead (1881-1949) New Zealand field naturalist (syn. Petroica australis rakiura, syn. Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandiae, syn. Phalacrocorax punctatus, syn. Procellaria aequinoctialis, Thalassarche).