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  EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS AMONG EXTANT ALBATROSSES (PROCELLARIIFORMES: DIOMEDEIDAE) ESTABLISHED FROM COMPLETE ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Phoebetria, Phoebastria, and Thalas- sarche), assigning a member of Diomedea into each of the four.
Historically, the genus Diomedea received all al- batross taxa that were not Phoebetria, regardless of the clear morphological affinities that united groups within Diomedea.
Monophyly of the southern mollymawks (Diomedea bulleri, D. cauta, D. chlororhynchos, D. chrysostoma, and D. melanophris) and sooty albatrosses (Phoebetria fusca and P. palpebrata) indicates that Diomedea is paraphyletic.
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v113n04/p0784-p0801.html   (14755 words)

  
 Seabird Osteology skulls Albatrosses Diomedeidae
Albatrosses can be divided into four distinct groups: the Great Albatrosses, the Pacific Albatrosses, the smaller Mollymawks and the two Sooty Albatrosses of the genus Phoebetria.
The former Diomedea -albatrosses (all except Phoebetria) are still under taxonomic review and many ‘old’ species have been split up into ‘new’ species, subspecies and new genera.
Diomedea will be retained for the Great Albatrosses and Phoebetria for the Sooties.
www.shearwater.nl /seabird-osteology/albatrosses_diomedeidae.htm   (908 words)

  
 Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) - BirdLife species factsheet
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Summary Phoebetria palpebrata breeds on South Georgia (to UK), Prince Edward and Marion islands (South Africa), Amsterdam, St Paul, Crozet and Kerguelen islands (French Southern Territories), Heard Island (Heard and MacDonald Islands (to Australia)), Macquarie Island (Australia), and Auckland, Campbell and Antipodes islands (New Zealand).
The total annual breeding population is estimated at 19,000-24,000 pairs, equivalent to 58,000 individuals in this biennially breeding species
www.birdlife.org /datazone/sites/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3971&m=0   (479 words)

  
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A New Approach - Taxonomic re-arrangement of the World's Albatrosses
Since 1983, when Amsterdam Albatross was described, the taxonomic arrangement of the World's Albatrosses has remain unchanged, with recent treatments recognising 14 species in two different genera, the two Sooty Albatrosses phoebetria and all remaining species diomedia.
However recent work has shown that there is historical uncertainty as to the relationships within the albatross family Diomedeidae, with more than twelve new generic arrangements being proposed in the last century.
www.birdinghawaii.co.uk /XNewApproachAlbatross2.htm   (687 words)

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