Kingdom Animalia Class Aves Family Procellariidae Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Order Procellariiformes Genus Puffinus | |
Similar Heinroth's shearwater, De Filippi's petrel, Jamaican petrel, Desertas petrel, Collared petrel | ||
The subantarctic shearwater (Puffinus elegans), is a small shearwater which breeds in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and some of the subantarctic islands off New Zealand.
Taxonomy
The subantarctic shearwater is sometimes considered a subspecies of the little shearwater.
References
Subantarctic shearwater Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA