174525174525174525Change English name of widespread Diomedea exulans from Wandering Albatross to Snowy Albatross to avoid confusion with the other three species formerly included in the Wandering Albatross complex (IOC List v15.1)765392025-03-19 15:25:44.0IOC List v15.12025-03-19174525Snowy AlbatrossEnglish174525albatroz-errantePortuguese174525Albatros viajeroSpanish174525Albatros hurleurFrench174525174525220174525TWG standards met220valid174525TWG standards met1745252201745251996-06-13 14:51:08.02025-03-19174525Chief, Bird Section, U.S.G.S. - B.R.D. - P.W.R.C.Richard C. BanksDiomedea exulans1745252001-09-28PO Box 1999 Walla Walla, Washington 99362-0999Alan P. Peterson, M.D.Diomedea exulans1745252001-09-28174525Africa2025-03-19Antarctica/Southern Ocean2025-03-19174525Diomedea174514SpeciesDiomedea exulans1745251745255Animalia 1745252011-08-26Diomedea exulans174525AOU Check-List (08-2011)American Ornithologists' Union's "Check-list of North American Birds - List of the 2,078 Bird Species Known From the A.O.U. Check-list Area" (AOU Check-list, 7th edition, updated with Supplements 42-52), maintained at http://www.aou.org/website2011-09-22Aug-20112011-05-28Diomedea exulans174525Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource, 2011.02.14"Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource" maintained by Alan P. Peterson at http://www.zoonomen.netwebsite2011-09-2214-Feb-112025-02-28Diomedea exulans174525Snowy AlbatrossEnglish174525IOC World Bird List (version 15.1)Gill, F., D. Donsker, and P. Rasmussen, eds. 2025. IOC World Bird List (v 15.1. Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org [Accessed 28 Feb 2025].website2025-03-1915.11996-07-29Diomedea exulans174525NODC Taxonomic Codedatabase2010-01-148.02011-08-26Diomedea exulans174525IOC World Bird List, Master List v2.9Master list and sub-lists are maintained at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/names.html, and 'virtually replace' Gill & Wright 2006 (Birds of the World, Recommended English Names)website2011-09-222.91745251745141745251987-01-011987-01-0179Resource Publication, no. 166Washington, D.C., USAUnited States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife ServiceBanks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. GardnerDiomedea exulans174525Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada2026-01-212006-01-010-691-12827-82006-01-01ix + 259Includes a CD-ROM with the full datasetBirds of the World: Recommended English NamesPrinceton, New Jersey, USAPrinceton University PressGill, Frank, and Minturn WrightDiomedea exulans1745252026-01-211758-01-011758-01-01824Available online at http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN362053006 and http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, 10th Edition, vol. 1Holmiae (Stockholm, Sweden)Laurentii SalviiLinnaeus, CarolusDiomedea exulans1745252026-01-21174525Linnaeus, 1758Diomedea exulansDiomedea exulans174525Diomedea exulans exulans7232821745255Animalia 220Species 174525Linnaeus, 17582004-04-09174525174525valid