Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
Thalassarche carteri(Rothschild, LW, 1903)
English (US) Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
The Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche carteri) 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 on southern Indian Ocean islands; ranges mainly southern Indian Ocean between Tropic of Capricorn and Subtropical ConvergenceRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Thalassarche carteri
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
- Described by
- (Rothschild, LW, 1903)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Thalassogeron carteri
- Described by
- (Rothschild, LW, 1903)
- Type locality
- Point Cloates, northwestern Australia
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 14 p.6
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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