The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- atlantica / atlanticus
L. Mare Atlanticus Atlantic Ocean < Atlas, Atlantis Mt. Atlas, Mauretania < Gr. myth. Atlas, Titan king of Mauretania condemned to bear the world on his shoulders; by association the name was subsequently given to the western ocean. Rare epithet for birds collected at sea in the Atlantic (e.g. syn. Thalassarche salvini), mainly indicating Atlantic coasts (e.g. of USA subsp. Anser caerulescens, subsp. Melospiza melodia; of Argentina Larus; of Brazil Xiphorhynchus) or islands (e.g. Barbados ‡subsp. Allenia fusca; Ascension I. subsp. Anous minutus; Tobago subsp. Chiroxiphia pareola).
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