| Amsterdam albatross | |
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| Adult in flight | |
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| Amsterdam albatross feeding chick | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Procellariiformes |
| Family: | Diomedeidae |
| Genus: | Diomedea |
| Species: | D. amsterdamensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Diomedea amsterdamensis | |
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Diomedea exulans amsterdamensis | |
The Amsterdam albatross or Amsterdam Island albatross,[2] (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.[1][3][4] 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.[5]
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2018). "Diomedea amsterdamensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22698310A132397831. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22698310A132397831.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ a b c BirdLife International (2008b)
- ^ Clements, J. (2007)
- ^ Remsen Jr., J. V. (2009)
- ^ Rains, Derek (2011). "Piecing together the global population puzzle of wandering albatrosses: genetic analysis of the Amsterdam albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis". Journal of Avian Biology. 42 (1): 69–79. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.05295.x.