Taxon data and maps: Puffinus griseus
Taxonomy details
Context
- Taxon Id
- 1024
- Common Name
- Sooty Shearwater
- Authority
- (Gmelin,1789)
- Naming Status
- Currently accepted name
- Status
- Found in the Antarctica/subantarctic or Southern Ocean
See map of extents - Taxon has been resolved to the rank Species.
Hierarchy
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- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Genus
- Puffinus
©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1973
- Catalogue id
- 457B2
- Caption
- Dr Knowles Kerry and Sooty Shearwater.
- Photographer
- Johnstone, Gavin W
Data and maps
Observation / specimen counts
There are 1456 observations / specimens of this taxa in the database from 1982 to 2006.
1456 species distribution records for this taxa are published to GBIF, OBIS
426 species distribution records are south of 60 deg south.
Habitat domain - Marine
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| Bird observations from South African BIOMASS voyages, Mawson and Prydz Bay region, 1984 and 1985 Details | 131 data pts | |
| Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean Details | 1,325 data pts | |
Distribution map
Polar projection map of the occurrence records of this taxa.
Warning - Validation efforts are incomplete. There may be a few spurious positions that require editing.