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The wandering albatross, snowy albatross, white-winged albatross or goonie〔Robertson, C. J. R. (2003)〕 (''Diomedea exulans'') is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the first species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan albatross and the Antipodean albatross. A few authors still consider them all subspecies of the same species.〔Clements, J. (2007)〕 The SACC has a proposal on the table to split this species,〔Remsen Jr., J. V. (2009)〕 and BirdLife International has already split it. Together with the Amsterdam albatross, it forms the wandering albatross species complex. The wandering albatross is the largest member of the genus ''Diomedea'' (the great albatrosses), one of the largest birds in the world, and one of the best known and studied species of bird in the world. ==Taxonomy== The wandering albatross was first described as ''Diomedea exulans'' by Carl Linnaeus, in 1758, based on a specimen from the Cape of Good Hope.〔 ''Diomedea'' refers to Diomedes whose companions turned to birds, and ''exulans'' or ''exsul'' are Latin for "exile" or "wanderer" referring to its extensive flights.〔Gotch, A. F. (1995)〕 There are two subspecies: * ''Diomedea exulans exulans'' * ''Diomedea exulans gibsoni'' (sometimes known as Gibson's albatross, and treated as a full species, ''Diomedea gibonsi'', by some authorities〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gibson's Albatross (Diomedea gibsoni) Robertson & Warham, 1992 )〕) The ''gibsoni'' subspecies nests in the Auckland Islands. Some experts considered there to be four subspecies of ''D. exulans'', which they elevated to species status, and use the term ''wandering albatross'' to refer to a species complex that includes the proposed species ''D. antipodensis'', ''D. dabbenena'', ''D. exulans'', and ''D. gibsoni''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wandering albatross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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