Bonin Petrel
Pterodroma hypoleuca(Salvin, O, 1888)
English (US) Bonin Petrel
The Bonin Petrel (Pterodroma hypoleuca) 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 Volcano, Bonin, and western Hawaiian islands; ranges to Sakhalin and central JapanRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pterodroma hypoleuca
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Bonin Petrel
- Described by
- (Salvin, O, 1888)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Oestrelata hypoleuca
- Described by
- (Salvin, O, 1888)
- Type locality
- north Pacific Ocean, 'Krusenstern Islands,' mythical islands designated by the collector instead of one of the islands in the Leeward Hawaiian Chain; cf. Murphy, 1951, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1512, p. 17.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.5, vol.6, no.23 p.359
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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