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Puffinus griseus (Gmelin, 1789) 
AphiaID: 137202

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Procellariiformes (Order) > Procellariidae (Family) > Puffinus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Puffinus Brisson, 1760
Synonymised
taxa
  Ardenna grisea (Gmelin, 1789)
Sources  original description: Gmelin, J.F. (1789). Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species; cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decimo tertia, aucta, reformata. 3 vols. in 9 parts. Lipsiae, 1788-93. v. 1 (pt 3), pp 1033-1516. [details]

basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London. [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Worthy, T. (2009). Aves (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: Cattrijsse, A.; Vincx, M. (2001). Biodiversity of the benthos and the avifauna of the Belgian coastal waters: summary of data collected between 1970 and 1998. Sustainable Management of the North Sea. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs: Brussel, Belgium. 48 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p. [details]

additional source: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details]

additional source: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.  [details]

additional source: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details]

additional source: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish sodfarvet skråpe  [details]
Dutch grauwe pijlstormvogel  [details]
English sooty shear water  [details]
English sooty shearwater  [details]
French puffin fuligineux  [details]
German dunkler Sturmtaucher  [details]
Hebrew יסעור עשנוני  [details]
Lithuanian pilkoji audronaša  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål grålire  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk grålire  [details]
Polish burzyk szary  [details]
Russian серый буревестник  [details]
Slovenian črni viharnik  [details]
Spanish pardela sombría  [details]
Swedish grålira  [details]
Turkish gri yelkovan kuşu  [details]
Turkish kül rengi yelkovan kuşu  [details]
Ukrainian Буревісник сірий  [details]
Ukrainian Сірий буревісник  [details]
Welsh aderyn drycin du  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (371 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (93 nucleotides; 55 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Breeding Category: Visitor [details]

Dimensions: Length: 19" (48cm); Wingspan 43" (109 cm) [details]

Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan [details]

Distribution: North America [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Near Threatened [details]

Reproduction: Breeds on numerous islands in the vicinity of Australia and New Zealand and the southern tip of South America and after the breeding season wanders over the oceans of the world. [details]
Images 
Sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus)
Sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus)
added on 2007-02-06 - author: Angus Wilson
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-02-25 16:54:01

Sooty shearwater
Sooty shearwater
added on 2007-02-15 - author: Yan Ropert-Coudert
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-02-25 16:54:12

Puffinus griseus
Puffinus griseus
added on 2009-02-19 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-02-25 16:54:19

Puffinus griseus
Puffinus griseus
added on 2012-02-05 - author: VLIZ Collection
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-02-25 16:54:33
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137202
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Puffinus griseus. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137202 on 2013-05-20
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