Taxon Profile: Pterodroma macroptera macroptera

Taxonomy details

Context

Taxon Id
110505
Common Name
Great-winged Petrel
Authority
(Smith,1840)
InfraSpecies Authority
(Smith, 1840)
Naming Status
Currently accepted name
Status
Found in the Antarctica/subantarctic or Southern Ocean
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Taxon has been resolved to the rank Infraspecies.

Hierarchy

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Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Procellariiformes
Family
Procellariidae
Genus
Pterodroma
Taxon

Profile

Source of taxon data
CAVS
Comments
breeds on islands in the Atlantic and Indian oceans and off southwestern Australia Known as grey faced petrel