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Procellariidae

Wikipedia Abstract

The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes (or tubenoses), which also includes the albatrosses, the storm petrels, and the diving petrels.
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Genus

Aphrodroma (Kerguelen petrel) (1)
Argyrodyptes (1)
Bulweria (Bulwer's and Jouanin's petrels) (3)
Calonectris (Cory's and streaked shearwaters) (6)
Daption (Cape petrel) (1)
Eopuffinus (1)
Fulmarus (fulmars) (4)
Gigantornis (1)
Halobaena (blue petrel) (1)
Macronectes (giant petrels) (2)
Pachyptila (prions) (7)
Pagodroma (snow petrel) (1)
Primodroma (1)
Procellaria (petrels) (8)   (1)
Pseudobulweria (petrels) (5)   (3)
Pterodroma (petrels) (38)   (10)
Pterodromoides (1)
Puffinus (shearwaters) (45)   (7)
Thalassoica (Antarctic petrel) (1)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0