Fregetta
| Fregetta | |
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| White-bellied storm petrel at Lord Howe Island | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Procellariiformes |
| Family: | Oceanitidae |
| Genus: | Fregetta Bonaparte, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Thalasssidroma leucogaster (white-bellied storm petrel) Gould, 1844
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Fregetta is a seabird genus in the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae.
Taxonomy[]
The genus Fregetta was introduced in 1855 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. He specified the type species as Thalasssidroma leucogaster which is now considered as a subspecies of the white-bellied storm petrel.[1][2]
The genus contains three species:[3]
- White-bellied storm petrel, Fregetta grallaria
- Black-bellied storm petrel, Fregetta tropica
- New Zealand storm petrel, Fregetta maoriana – formerly placed in Oceanites
References[]
- ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1855). "Note sur les oiseaux des îles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius". Compte Rendus Hebdomadaire des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 41: 1109–1115 [1113].
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 107.
|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Petrels, albatrosses". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
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