Diomedea melanophris

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• More Info
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, pelagic waters, freshwater marshes, coastal waters • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: High

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,072 meters (0 to -19,921 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996

Similar Species

Members of the genus Diomedea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 24 species and subspecies in this genus:

D. albatrus (Short-Tailed Albatross) · D. amsterdamensis (Amsterdam Island Albatross) · D. antipodensis (Antipodean Albatross) · D. bulleri (Buller's Albatross) · D. bulleri bulleri (Buller's Albatross) · D. cauta (White-Capped Albatross) · D. cauta cauta (Shy Albatross) · D. cauta salvini (Shy Albatross) · D. chlororhynchos (Yellow-Nosed Albatross) · D. chrysostoma (Flat-Billed Albatross) · D. dabbenena (Tristan Albatross) · D. epomophora (Northern Royal Albatross) · D. epomophora epomophora (Southern Royal Albatross) · D. exulans (Cape Wandering Albatross) · D. exulans exulans (Wandering Albatross) · D. gibsoni (Gibson's Albatross) · D. immutabilis (White Gooney Bird) · D. irrorata (Galapagos Albatross) · D. melanophris (Black-Browed Albatross) · D. melanophris impavida (Black-Browed Albatross) · D. melanophris melanophris (Black-Browed Albatross) · D. nigripes (Hawaiian Black-Footed Albatross) · D. palpebrata (Light-Mantled Albatross) · D. sanfordi (Northern Royal Albatross)

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Further Reading

• A List of British birds / London: British Ornithologists' Union, 1915. url .
• A list of British birds, comp. by a committee of the British ornithologists' union. London: British ornithologists' union, 1915. url p. 293.
• A list of the birds of Australia: containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author / London: Witherby, 1913. url p. 42.
• A manual of the birds of Australia / by Gregory M. Mathews. .. and. .. Tom Iredale; illus. with coloured and monochrome plates by Lilian Medland. London: Witherby, 1921. url p. 50.
• A manual of the birds of Australia, by Gregory M. Mathews. .. and Tom Iredale. .. Illustrated with coloured and monochrome plates by Lilian Medland. Vol. I. Orders Casuarii to Columbæ. London, H.F. & G. Witherby, 1921. url p. 50.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 50.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1967 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 115, p. 15, fig. 4.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. Charles E. Hellmayr, Boardman Conover. 13 1948 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1948. url p. 41, p. 45.
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 9.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 12, p. 799.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 43, p. 54.
• Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url p. 529.
• Discovery reports. London; Cambridge University Press. url p. 128.
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 24.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 759.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 239.
• Madagascar: an environmental profile IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 175.
• Occasional papers of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas. 1994 Lawrence, Kan.: The University, 1971-1994. url p. 13, p. 2, p. 21, p. 25, p. 30.
• Oceanic birds of South America: a study of species of the related coasts and seas, including the American quadrant of Antarctica, based upon the Brewster-Sanford collection in the American Museum of Natural History / by Robert Cushman Murphy; illustrated from paintings by Francis L. Jaques; photographs, maps, and other drawings. I 1936 New York: Macmillan Co.: c1936. url p. 167, p. 188, p. 201, p. 208, p. 213, p. 222, p. 232, p. 478, p. 480, p. 485, p. 490, p. 493, p. 505, p. 515, p. 517, fig. 52, p. 526, p. xi.
• Oceanus. Woods Hole, Mass., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution url p. 27.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 9.
• Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 44.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 741.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 44.
• Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 11, p. 16.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 19, p. 8.
• Review of information regarding the conservation of living resources of the Antarctic marine ecosystem: final report / John L. Bengtson. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, [1978] url p. 11, p. 146.
• Sea-birds: an introduction to the natural history of the sea-birds of the North Atlantic / by James Fisher and R. M. Lockley. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1954. url p. 27, p. 296, p. 314.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 10, p. 109.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 19 1977 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 14, p. 145, fig. 12, page 15, p. 220, p. 228, p. 234, fig. 2, page 4.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 09, 2007:

• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, SEAMAP - marine mammals, birds and turtles
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data, Pangaea

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 12173
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174518
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13541277
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174518
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 152175

Footnotes

1. Mean = -2,132.170 meters (-6,995.308 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,658.590 based on 1,845 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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