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Ardenna

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Procellariidae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Aves

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Procellariiformes

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Similar
  
Flesh‑footed shearwater, Short‑tailed shearwater, Pink‑footed shearwater, Buller's shearwater, Wedge‑tailed shearwater

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Ardenna is a genus of seabirds in the family Procellariidae.

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It comprises a group medium-sized shearwaters. The species were for a long time included in the genus Puffinus but this genus was split based on the results of a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA. The genus had been introduced by Ludwig Reichenbach in 1853, although the name was first used to refer to a seabird by Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603.

The genus contains the following seven species:

  • Wedge-tailed shearwater or muttonbird (Northern and western Australia), A. pacifica
  • Buller's shearwater, A. bulleri
  • Sooty shearwater or muttonbird (New Zealand), A. grisea
  • Short-tailed shearwater or muttonbird (Southern Australia), A. tenuirostris
  • Pink-footed shearwater, A. creatopus
  • Flesh-footed shearwater, A. carneipes
  • Great shearwater, A. gravis

    • Great shearwater ardenna gravis formerly puffinus gravis swimming taking off in flight


    References

    Ardenna Wikipedia
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