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EndangeredAmsterdam albatross
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderProcellariiformes
- FamilyDiomedeidae
阿島信天翁（學名：Diomedea amsterdamensis）是一種大型信天翁，生活在法屬南部領地中的阿姆斯特丹島上，而且只局限在該島的 Plateau des Tourbières（“沼泽高原”） 繁殖。阿島信天翁一直被視為广泛分布的漂泊信天翁（Diomedea exulans）的一個亞種，直至1983年才被分離出來視作一獨立種。
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- Diomedea amsterdamensis
- taxon common name
- albatroz-da-amesterdão
- endemic to
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- wingspan
- 300
- egg incubation period
- 79
- litter size
- 1
- short name
- D. amsterdamensis
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Encyclopedic overview
The Amsterdam albatross or Amsterdam Island albatross (Diomedea amsterdamensis), is a large albatross which breeds only on Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean. It was only described in 1983, and was thought by some researchers to be a subspecies of the wandering albatross, D. exulans (now the snowy albatross). BirdLife International and the IOC recognize it as a species, James Clements does not, and the SACC has a proposal on the table to split the species. More recently, mitochondrial DNA comparisons between the Amsterdam albatross, the wandering albatross Diomedea exulans, the Antipodean albatross D. antipodensis and the Tristan albatross D. dabbenena, provide clear genetic evidence that the Amsterdam albatross is a separate species.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amsterdam Albatross” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.