Mysticete
Well-known member
Steve Howell and Kirk Zufelt's new book actually seems to be of interest in this forum, but I haven't seen much discussion here. It uses a VERY progressive taxonomy with a lot of splits not currently recognized.
Anyway, I was interested in seeing what the taxonomy is like, and I will post the new or often unrecognized splits here, in case folks want to keep track. There are a LOT so I will do this as a few different posts
First off:
Northern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi)
Southern Rockhopper Penguin (E. chrysocome)
Eastern Rockhopper Penguin (E. filholi)
Kuril Guillemot (Cepphus snowi)
South Georgia Diving-Petrel (P. georgicus)
Codfish Diving Petrel (P. whenuahouensis) = note authors reject proposed name of Whenua Hou Diving-Petrel as not being "English" enough. There are a few other cases here and there with common names different from more widely used ones
Common Diving-Petrel complex
Falkland Diving-Petrel (P. berard)
Subtropical Diving-Petrel (P. urinatrix)
Subantarctic Diving-Petrel (P. exsul)
Anyway, I was interested in seeing what the taxonomy is like, and I will post the new or often unrecognized splits here, in case folks want to keep track. There are a LOT so I will do this as a few different posts
First off:
Northern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi)
Southern Rockhopper Penguin (E. chrysocome)
Eastern Rockhopper Penguin (E. filholi)
Kuril Guillemot (Cepphus snowi)
South Georgia Diving-Petrel (P. georgicus)
Codfish Diving Petrel (P. whenuahouensis) = note authors reject proposed name of Whenua Hou Diving-Petrel as not being "English" enough. There are a few other cases here and there with common names different from more widely used ones
Common Diving-Petrel complex
Falkland Diving-Petrel (P. berard)
Subtropical Diving-Petrel (P. urinatrix)
Subantarctic Diving-Petrel (P. exsul)