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Cyanocitta stelleri (Gmelin, JF 1788) OD v. 1, pt. 1 - Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Polysticta stelleri (Pallas, 1769) OD t.1:fasc.1-10 (1767-1774) - Spicilegia zoologica - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Stellaria Bonaparte, 1838 OD A geographical and comparative list of the birds of Europe and North America - Biodiversity Heritage Library => Stellaria Bonaparte 1842 OD t.8 (1842) - Nuovi annali delle scienze naturali - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Stellerocitta Coues, 1903 OD 1 - Key to North American birds - Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Eider genus Stelleria Bonaparte, 1842 NCR [Now in Polysticta]
Jay genus Stellerocitta Coues, 1903 NCR [Now in Cyanocitta]
Steller's Albatross Phoebastria albatrus Pallas, 1769 [Alt. Short-tailed Albatross]
Steller's Eider Polysticta stelleri Pallas, 1769
Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri J. F. Gmelin, 1788
Steller's Flightless Cormorant Phalacrocorax perspicillatus Pallas, 1811 EXTINCT [Alt. Pallas's Cormorant, Spectacled Cormorant]
Steller's Sea Eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus Pallas, 1811
Georg Wilhelm Steller (originally Stöhler) (1709–1746) was a German naturalist and explorer in the Russian service. He studied medicine at Halle and went to Russia (1731–1734) as a physician in the Russian Army. He became an Assistant at the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg (1734) and left for Kamchatka (1737) accompanying Vitus Bering (q.v.) on his second expedition (1738–1742) to Alaska on board St Peter, which was accompanied by the St Paul. This expedition ended when the St Peter was wrecked on a desolate island, now called Bering Island, where Bering died and the surviving crew had to spend the winter in crude huts. Steller and the Danish first lieutenant Waxell proved effective in ensuring their survival. After nine months a boat was constructed from the wreckage of the St Peter, enabling the survivors to leave the island for Kamchatka (1742). Steller worked in Petropavlovsk (1742–1744) but died on his return journey from there to St Petersburg. He published Journal of a Voyage with Bering 1741–1742(1743) in which he informally described the marine mammal now known as Steller's Sea Cow. Soon afterwards the animal was hunted to extinction, so Steller's expedition members were the only scientists to see it alive. A second mammal is also named after him.

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stelleri
Georg Wilhelm Steller (born Stöhler) (1709-1746) German naturalist, explorer in the Russian service, took part in Vitus Bering’s expedition to Russian America / Alaska 1740-1742 (Cyanocitta (ex “Steller’s Crow” of Latham 1781), Polysticta).

Stelleria
(Anatidae; syn. Polysticta † Steller's Eider P. stelleri) Georg Wilhelm Steller (born Stöhler) (1709-1746) German naturalist, explorer (cf. specific name Anas stelleri Pallas, 1769); "232. STELLERIA, Bp. (nec Stellaria) Eniconetta, Gr." (Bonaparte 1842); "Stelleria Bonaparte, 1842, Nuovi Annali Sci. Nat., VIII, p. 266. New name for Stellaria Bonaparte, 1838, not of Møller, 1832 (Mollusca), nor of Nardo, 1834 (Echinoderm)." (JAJ 2021).

Stellerocitta
(Corvidae; syn. Cyanocitta † Steller's Jay C. stelleri) Georg Wilhelm Steller (born Stöhler) (1709-1746) German naturalist, explorer (cf. specific name Corvus stelleri J. Gmelin, 1788); Gr. κιττα kitta jay; "Sooty-brownish or - blackish, bluing on body behind, wings and tail; both the latter black-barred. (Subgenus STELLEROCITTA.) ... (Subgenus STELLEROCITTA.) C. stelleri. (To G. W. Steller. Fig. 335.) STELLER'S JAY. MOUNTAIN JAY. PINE JAY" (Coues 1903); "Stellerocitta Coues, 1903, Key to North American Birds, 5th ed., I, pp. 494, 495. Type, by monotypy, Corvus stelleri Gmelin, 1788." (JAJ 2021).

The mammals mentioned are

• Steller's Sea-Lion Eumetopias jubatus Schreber, 1776
• Steller's Sea Cow Hydrodamalis gigas Zimmermann, 1780 extinct

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• Maybe Stellera L. vol. 1 - Caroli Linnaei ... Species plantarum - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Pteris stelleri S.G.Gmel. t.12 (1766-1767) - Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae - Biodiversity Heritage Library and maybe a couple more.

From G.W. Steller – Internationale Georg-Wilhelm-Steller-Gesellschaft e.V. I would go for Stöller instead of Stöhler. More about his life as well Georg Wilhelm Steller | Bad Windsheim . In Deutsche Biographie - Steller, Georg Wilhelm we find two alternative names Stoeller and/or Stöhler.

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