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WoRMS taxon details

Diomedeidae Gray, 1840

AphiaID

148742 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148742)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Procellariiformes

Direct children (5)

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Genus Aldiomedes Mayr & Tennyson, 2019 †
Genus Diomedea Linnaeus, 1758
Genus Phoebastria Reichenbach, 1852
Genus Phoebetria Reichenbach, 1852
Genus Thalassarche Reichenbach, 1853

Environment

marine, brackish, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2026). Diomedeidae Gray, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148742 on 2026-07-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-03-29 08:12:19Z

created

Claus, Simon

2020-06-25 07:35:06Z

changed

Decock, Wim

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Nomenclature

basis of record Harrison, P. (1985). Seabirds: an identification guide. Revised edition. Christopher Helm Publisher. A & C Black: London, UK. ISBN 0-7136-3510-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Dutch	albatrossen	[details]
English	albatrosses	[details]
Japanese	アホウドリ科	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	albatrossfamilien	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	albatrossfamilien	[details]
Swedish	albatrosser	[details]

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Diomedeidae)
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