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Diomedeidae (albatross)

Reptilia - Diomedeidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1840Diomedeidae Gray
1930Diomedeidae Hay p. 287
1933Diomedeidae Lambrecht p. 273
1940Diomedeidae Wetmore p. 8
1943Diomedeidae Wetmore p. 66
1955Diomedeidae Brodkorb p. 7
1956Diomedeidae Wetmore p. 10
1966Diomedeidae Howard p. 2
1968Diomedeidae Howard p. 5
1972Diomedeidae Howard p. 4
1978Diomedeidae Howard p. 4
1982Diomedeidae Howard p. 3
1982Diomedeidae Olson and James p. 32
1984Diomedeidae Cheneval p. 40
1985Diomedeidae Olson p. 124
1987Diomedeidae Howard and Barnes p. 3
1988Diomedeidae Carroll
1990Diomedeidae Chandler p. 96
1992Diomedeidae Guthrie p. 320
2001Diomedeidae Olson and Rasmussen p. 249
2002Diomedeidae Hope p. 365
2005Diomedeidae Bourdon et al. p. 166
2007Diomedeidae Livezey and Zusi p. 90
2012Diomedeidae Mayr and Smith p. 89
2014Diomedeidae del Hoyo et al.
2017Diomedeidae Acosta Hospitaleche and Gelfo p. 757
2017Diomedeidae Clements et al.
2017Diomedeidae Mayr and Goedert p. 661
2020Diomedeidae Worthy and Nguyen p. 88

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Aequornithes
—Feraequornithes
superorderProcellariimorphae
—Procellariiformes(Fürbringer 1888)
familyDiomedeidaeGray 1840
familyDiomedeidaeGray 1840

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Diomedeidae Gray 1840 [albatross]
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G. †Aldiomedes Mayr and Tennyson 2019
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†Aldiomedes angustirostris Mayr and Tennyson 2019
G. †Diomedavus Mayr and Goedert 2017
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†Diomedavus knapptonensis Mayr and Goedert 2017
G. Diomedea Linnaeus 1758
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Diomedea amsterdamensis Roux et al. 1983 [Amsterdam albatross]
Diomedea epomophora Lesson 1825 [royal albatross]
Diomedea exulans Linnaeus 1758 [wandering albatross]
†Diomedea milleri Howard 1966
†Diomedea nigripes Audubon 1839
†Diomedea rumana Grigorescu and Kessler 1988
†Diomedea thyridata Wilkinson 1969
G. †Notoleptos Acosta Hospitaleche and Gelfo 2017
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†Notoleptos giglii Acosta Hospitaleche and Gelfo 2017
G. Phoebastria Reichenbach 1853
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Phoebastria albatrus Pallas 1769 [short-tailed albatross]
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Invalid names: Diomedea howardae Chandler 1990 [synonym]
†Phoebastria anglica Lydekker 1891
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Invalid names: Diomedea californica Miller 1962 [synonym]
†Phoebastria immutabilis Rothschild 1839
Phoebastria irrorata Salvin 1883 [Waved albatross]
†Phoebastria rexularum Olson and Rasmussen 2001
G. Phoebetria Reichenbach 1853
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Phoebetria palpebrata Forster 1785 [Light-mantled albatross]
G. Thalassarche Reichenback 1853
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Thalassarche bulleri Rothschild 1893 [Buller's albatross]
Thalassarche cauta Gould 1841 [white-capped albatross]
Thalassarche chlororhynchos Gmelin 1789 [yellow-nosed albatross]
Thalassarche chrysostoma Forster 1785 [gray-headed albatross]
Thalassarche melanophris Temminck 1828 [Black-browed albatross]
G. †Tydea Mayr and Smith 2012
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†Tydea septentrionalis Mayr and Smith 2012
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available