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    Procellaria is a genus of Southern Ocean long-winged seabirds related to prions, and within the order Procellariiformes. The black petrel (Procellaria...
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    by the Irish naturalist Bernard O'Reilly and given the binomial name Procellaria gravis. The great shearwater is now placed in the genus Ardenna that...
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    Bosphorus, Turkey. He placed the shearwater in the genus Procellaria and coined the binomial name Procellaria yelkouan. The yelkouan shearwater is now placed in...
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    Naturae. He placed it with the petrels in the genus Procellaria and coined the binomial name Procellaria pacifica. Gmelin based his description on the "Pacific...
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    shearwater was first described by Danish zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich as Procellaria puffinus in 1764. The current scientific name Puffinus derives from "puffin"...
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    The Westland petrel (Procellaria westlandica), (Māori: tāiko), also known as the Westland black petrel, is a moderately large seabird in the petrel family...
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    The white-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) also known as the Cape hen and shoemaker, is a large shearwater in the family Procellariidae. It...
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  • Aegopinella procellaria is an extinct species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae, the glass snails...
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    The black petrel (Procellaria parkinsoni), (Māori: tāiko, or tākoketai) also called Parkinson's petrel, is a medium-sized, black-plumaged petrel, the...
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    Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Procellaria pelagica. It was moved to the genus Hydrobates by Friedrich Boie in 1822...
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  • Thumbnail for Leach's storm petrel
    text Synonyms Procellaria leucorhoa Vieillot, 1818 Procellaria leachii Temminck, 1820 Procellaria atlantica Bonaparte, 1824 Procellaria bullockii (nomen...
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    He placed it with the other petrels in the genus Procellaria and coined the binomial name Procellaria desolata. Gmelin based his description on the "brown-banded...
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    he included a brief description of the bird, coined the binomial name Procellaria caerulea and cited Forster's book. The blue petrel is now the only species...
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  • He placed it with the other petrels in the genus Procellaria and coined the binomial name Procellaria alba. Gmelin based his description on the "white-breasted...
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    prion in the genus Procellaria that had been erected for the petrels by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 and coined the binomial name Procellaria vittata. The broad-billed...
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    He placed it with the other petrels in the genus Procellaria and coined the binomial name Procellaria glacialis. Linnaeus based his description mainly...
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  • He placed it with the other petrels in the genus Procellaria and coined the binomial name Procellaria fuliginosa. Gmelin based his description on the "sooty...
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    The spectacled petrel (Procellaria conspicillata) is a rare seabird that nests only on the high western plateau of Inaccessible Island in the South Atlantic...
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    related to the shearwaters in the genus Puffinus and especially the Procellaria petrels. The genus Bulweria was introduced in 1843 by the French naturalist...
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    Procellariiformes Family: Procellariidae Genus: Fulmarus Stephens, 1826 Type species Procellaria glacialis (northern fulmar) Linnaeus, 1761 Species Fulmarus glacialis...
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    species feeding on fish and molluscs which are fairly close to the prions: Procellaria Bulweria Shearwaters: There are numerous species in several genera with...
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  • still evolving taxonomic class that may or may not include the genera Procellaria and Bulweria. This list includes them both. Some experts, most notably...
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    The grey petrel (Procellaria cinerea), also called the brown petrel, pediunker or grey shearwater is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae, or petrel...
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  • petrel Pterodroma brevirostris Kerguelen petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis White-chinned petrel Procellaria cinerea Grey petrel  Hydrobatidae Oceanites oceanicus...
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    location missing publisher (link) Latham, Joannis (1790). "Genus XCV. Procellaria". Index ornithologicus. Vol. 2. Londini: Sumptibus authoris. p. 826....
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  • Procellarine petrels Procellaria Procellaria aequinoctialis, white-chinned petrel Procellaria conspicillata, spectacled petrel Procellaria westlandica, Westland...
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    the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin under the binomial name Procellaria grisea. The shearwater had been briefly described in 1777 by James Cook...
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    placed it with all the other petrels in the genus Procellaria and coined the binomial name Procellaria glacialoides. The southern fulmar is now placed with...
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  • Procellaria cinerea NT White-chinned petrel, Procellaria aequinoctialis VU Spectacled petrel, Procellaria conspicillata VU Black petrel, Procellaria parkinsoni...
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    Family: Procellariidae Genus: Macronectes Richmond, 1905 Type species Procellaria gigantea Gmelin, 1789 Species Macronectes giganteus Southern giant petrel...
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