Townsend's storm petrel

Townsend's storm petrel (Hydrobates socorroensis) is a species of seabird in the family Hydrobatidae. It breeds in the summer on Guadalupe Island off the western coast of Mexico. It ranges in the Eastern Pacific Ocean north to southern California in the United States and south to 10°N latitude. It used to be considered a subspecies of the Leach's storm petrel. It was formerly defined in the genus Oceanodroma before that genus was synonymized with Hydrobates.[2]

Townsend's storm petrel
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Hydrobatidae
Genus: Hydrobates
Species:
H. socorroensis
Binomial name
Hydrobates socorroensis
(Townsend, 1890)
Synonyms
  • Hydrobates socorroensis Coues, 1864

References

  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Hydrobates socorroensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T132450926A132452334. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T132450926A132452334.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. "Taxonomic Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  • Ainley, D.G. 1980. Geographic variation in Leach's Storm-Petrel. Auk 97: 837–853.


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