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Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and PetrelsJuly 1st, 2008
The type specimen for this species was collected by George Steller offshore of Kamchatka, Russia in the Bering Sea during the 1740's and was described by P.S. Pallas as Diomedea albatrus in 1769 [1]. Following the results of genetic studies [2], the family Diomedeidae was arranged into four genera. The genus Phoebastria, North Pacific albatrosses, now includes the short-tailed albatross (Figure 1), the Laysan albatross (P. immutabilis), the black-footed albatross (P. nigripes), and the waved albatross (P. irrorata) [1]. Recent analyses, based on complete nucleotide sequencing of mitochondrial cytochrome b gene, confirm this arrangement [3].
