Salvin's Prion
Pachyptila salvini(Mathews, GM, 1912)
English (US) Salvin's Prion
The Salvin's Prion (Pachyptila salvini) 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: breeds Prince Edward and Crozet islands; ranges to southern Indian Ocean and southern Australasian seasRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pachyptila salvini
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Salvin's Prion
- Described by
- (Mathews, GM, 1912)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Prion vittatus salvini
- Described by
- (Mathews, GM, 1912)
- Type locality
- 'Crozets, Marion Island, etc.'; restricted to Marion Island by Mathews, 1934, Novit. Zool., 39, p. 172.
- Original description
- The birds of Australia 2 p.212
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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