Sula leucogaster (Brown Booby)

Brown Booby

Sula leucogaster (Boddaert, P 1783)

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Classification

Order:
  Pelecaniformes
Family:
  Sulidae
Genus:
   Sula
Scientific:
  Sula leucogaster

Original description

Citation:
(Boddaert, P 1783)

Reference:
Table Planches Enlum. D'Aubenton

Protonym:
Pelecanus Leucogaster

Type locality:
Cayenne.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88617#page/79/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
05520B42BE95E3ED

Avibase ID:
avibase-05520B42

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/05520B42

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 174704

Geographic range:

Sula leucogaster: widespread tropical and subtropical ocean islands; Cape Verde Islands (southern Macaronesia), Boatswain Bird Island (just off Ascension, south-central South Atlantic Ocean), Alcatraz Island (west of northwestern Guinea), and Gulf of Guinea islands, Caribbean islands off Yucatán Peninsula and Honduras to Panama and southwestern Colombia, Bahamas and Cayman Islands to Lesser Antilles, islands north of Venezuela and Tobago and off Brazil, islands off Somalia and Socotra, Aldabra, and Madagascar, and Chagos Archipelago, Cocos (Keeling), and Christmas islands (tropical Indian Ocean), islands off northern Australia, Tench (St. Matthias group, north-central Bismarck Archipelago), remote islands in Melanesia; many islands of southern Japan including Kyushu; Taiwan; offshore islands of Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia, in Flores and Banda seas, from Marianas and Palau through Hawaiian Islands and Gambier Islands (eastern Tuamotu Archipelago; eastern Polynesia)
Sula leucogaster leucogaster: islands in Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and tropical Atlantic
Sula leucogaster plotus: breeds on islands in the Red Sea, tropical Indian Ocean, and tropical western and central Pacific Ocean

Source: Clements checklist

English:
Brown Booby
Catalan:
Mascarell bru
Czech:
terej žlutonohý
Danish:
Brun Sule
German:
Weißbauchtölpel
Spanish:
Piquero Pardo
Finnish:
ruskosuula
French:
Fou brun
Icelandic:
Brúnsúla
Italian:
Sula fosca
Japanese (romaji):
katsuodori
Japanese:
カツオドリ
Lithuanian:
Tamsusis padūkėlis
Dutch:
Bruine Gent
Norwegian:
Brunsule
Polish:
gluptak bialobrzuchy
Portuguese:
Alcatraz
Portuguese (Brazil):
Atobá-pardo
Russian:
Бурая олуша
Slovak:
sula červenonohá
Swedish:
Brun sula
Chinese:
褐鲣鸟

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

American Ornithologists' Union 1st edition (1886): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 1st edition (incl. 1st suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 1st edition (incl. 2nd suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 1st edition (incl. 3rd suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 1st edition (incl. 4th suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 1st edition (incl. 5th suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 1st edition (incl. 6th suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 1st edition (incl. 7th suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (1895): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 8th suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 9th suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 10th suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 11th suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 12th suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 13th suppl.): Booby ( Sula sula)
American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 14th suppl.): Booby ( Sula leucogastra)
American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 15th suppl.): Booby ( Sula leucogastra)
American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (1910): Booby ( Sula leucogastra)
American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (incl. 16th suppl.): Booby ( Sula leucogastra)
American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (incl. 17th suppl.): Booby ( Sula leucogastra)
American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (incl. 18th suppl.): Booby ( Sula leucogastra)
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (1931): White-bellied Booby ( Sula leucogaster) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 19th suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 20th suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 21st suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 22nd suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 23rd suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 24th suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 25th suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 26th suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 27th suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 28th suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 29th suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 30th suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 31st suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 5th edition (1957): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 5th edition (incl. 32nd suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 5th edition (incl. 33rd suppl.): Sula leucogaster leucogaster [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 65th suppl.): Brown Booby ( Sula leucogaster) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Brown Booby ( Sula leucogaster) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Brown Booby [White-bellied] ( Sula leucogaster [leucogaster])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Brown Booby ( Sula leucogaster) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Brown Booby [White-bellied] ( Sula leucogaster [leucogaster])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Brown Booby [White-bellied] ( Sula leucogaster [leucogaster])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Brown Booby [White-bellied] ( Sula leucogaster [leucogaster])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Brown Booby [White-bellied] ( Sula leucogaster [leucogaster])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Brown Booby [White-bellied] ( Sula leucogaster [leucogaster])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Brown Booby [White-bellied] ( Sula leucogaster [leucogaster])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Brown Booby [White-bellied] ( Sula leucogaster [leucogaster])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Brown Booby [White-bellied] ( Sula leucogaster [leucogaster])
Clements, version 2024: Brown Booby ( Sula leucogaster) [version 1]
eBird version 2024: Brown Booby ( Sula leucogaster) [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: full species (sometimes nominal subspecies)

This taxon is considered a subspecies of Sula [leucogaster or brewsteri] (sensu lato) by some authors

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