Southern Fulmar
Fulmarus glacialoides(Smith, A, 1840)
English (US) Southern Fulmar
The Southern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Procellariidae (Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving Petrels) in the order Procellariiformes.
Range: circumpolar in Antarctic, breeding islets and coast of Antarctica; ranges southern oceans from pack-ice to Humboldt Current off Chile and PeruRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Fulmarus glacialoides
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Southern Fulmar
- Described by
- (Smith, A, 1840)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Procellaria glacialoides
- Described by
- (Smith, A, 1840)
- Type locality
- Cape seas.
- Original description
- Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836 pt.11 pl.51,text
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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