Fregetta

Fregetta is a seabird genus in the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae.

Fregetta
White-bellied storm petrel at Lord Howe Island
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Oceanitidae
Genus: Fregetta
Bonaparte, 1855
Type species
Thalasssidroma leucogaster (white-bellied storm petrel)
Gould, 1844
Species
  • Fregetta grallaria
  • Fregetta maoriana
  • Fregetta tropica

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]

References
  1. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1855). "Note sur les oiseaux des îles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 41: 1109–1115 [1113].
  2. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 107.
  3. 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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