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Procellaria is a
genus of
Southern Ocean long-winged
seabirds related to prions, and
within the
order Procellariiformes. The
black petrel (Procellaria...
- Naturae. He
placed it with the
petrels in the
genus Procellaria and
coined the
binomial name
Procellaria pacifica.
Gmelin based his
description on the "Pacific...
- Bosphorus, Turkey. He
placed the
shearwater in the
genus Procellaria and
coined the
binomial name
Procellaria yelkouan. The
yelkouan shearwater is now
placed in...
- by the
Irish naturalist Bernard O'Reilly and
given the
binomial name
Procellaria gravis. The
great shearwater is now
placed in the
genus Ardenna that...
- The
Westland petrel (
Procellaria westlandica), (Māori: tāiko), also
known as the
Westland black petrel, is a
moderately large seabird in the
petrel family...
- The
black petrel (
Procellaria parkinsoni), (Māori: tāiko, or tākoketai) also
called Parkinson's petrel, is a medium-sized, black-plumaged petrel, the...
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Aegopinella procellaria is an
extinct species of
small land snail, a
terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the
family Gastrodontidae, the gl**** snails...
- The
spectacled petrel (
Procellaria con****illata) is a rare
seabird that
nests only on the high
western plateau of
Inaccessible Island in the
South Atlantic...
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shearwater was
first described by
Danish zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich as
Procellaria puffinus in 1764. The
current scientific name
Puffinus derives from "puffin"...
- Carl
Linnaeus in his
landmark 1758 10th
edition of
Systema Naturae as
Procellaria pelagica. It was
moved to the
genus Hydrobates by
Friedrich Boie in 1822...
