Species profile
Tristan Albatross
Diomedea dabbenena
Quick answer
If the genus Thalassogeron be considered congeneric with Diomedea, then Diomedea alexanderi Dabbene, Physis B. Aires, viii. 1827, p. 563, must have a new name; it can be called
- Scientific name
- Diomedea dabbenena
- Family
- Diomedeidae
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Genus
- Diomedea
- Conservation status
- Critically Endangered
Recording Tristan Albatross in your journal
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Related species in Diomedeidae
- Aldiomedes angustirostris (Aldiomedes angustirostris)
- Amsterdam Albatross (Diomedea amsterdamensis)
- Antipodean Albatross (Diomedea antipodensis)
- Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos)
- Black-browed albatros (Thalassarche melanophris)
- Brown Gooney (Phoebastria nigripes)
- Buller's Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri)
- Campbell albatross (Thalassarche impavida)