Oceanites

Oceanites
Wilson's storm petrel 'walking' on the water off of Hatteras, North Carolina.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Oceanitidae
Genus:
Keyserling & Blasius, 1840
Type species
Procellaria wilsonii[1]
Bonaparte = Procellaria oceanica Kuhl
Species
  • O. oceanicus
  • O. gracilis
  • O. pincoyae
  • O. barrosi

Oceanites is a genus of seabird in the austral storm petrel family. The genus name refers to the mythical Oceanids, the three thousand daughters of Tethys.[2]

It contains the following species:

Genus Oceanites – Keyserling & Blasius, 1840 – four species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Wilson's storm petrel

Oceanites oceanicus
(Kuhl, 1820) 		South Shetland Islands
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Elliot's storm petrel

Oceanites gracilis
(Elliot, 1859) 		Galápagos Islands, Peru and Chile
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Pincoya storm petrel


Oceanites pincoyae
(Harrison et al., 2013) 		Chiloé Island (Reloncavi Sound and the Chacao Channel), Chile
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Andean storm petrel


Oceanites barrosi
(Heraldo V. Norambuena, Rodrigo Barros, Álvaro Jaramillo, Fernando Medrano, Chris Gaskin, Tania King, Karen Baird, Cristián E. Hernádez., 2024) 		Chile Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 




References

  1. ^ Peters, JL (1931). Check-list of birds of the world. Vol. 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 68–69.
  2. ^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 279. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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