Light-mantled Albatross
Phoebetria palpebrata(Forster, JR, 1785)
English (US) Light-mantled Albatross
The Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Diomedeidae (Albatrosses) in the order Procellariiformes.
Range: breeds circumpolar subantarctic islands; ranges through subantarctic and Antarctic oceansRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Phoebetria palpebrata
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Light-mantled Albatross
- Described by
- (Forster, JR, 1785)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Diomedea palpebrata
- Described by
- (Forster, JR, 1785)
- Type locality
- 'depuis le degre quarante-septieme de latitude australe jusqu'au soixanteonzieme et dix minutes' = south of Prince Edward and Marion Islands, fide Mathews, 1934, Novit. Zool., 39, p. 157.
- Original description
- Mémoires de mathématique et de physique, presentés à l'Académie royale des sciences, par divers savans, et lûs dans ses assemblées 10 p.571 pl.15
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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