Phaethontidae – Procellariidae

Phaethontidae: Tropicbirds

Gaviidae: Loons

Oceanitidae: Austral Storm Petrels

Diomedeidae: Albatrosses

Hydrobatidae: Northern Storm Petrels

Procellariidae: Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels


PHAETHONTIDAE Brandt, 1839

Phaëthontidae J. F. Brandt [J. F. von Brandt]. “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Naturgeschichte der Vögel mit besonderer Beziehung auf Skeletbau und Vergleichende Zoologie.” Mémoires de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 6th ser., 5, Sciences naturelles 3 (Zoologie et physiologie), nos. 1–2 (1839): [81]–237, [196]. (Offprint with same date: J. F. Brandt [J. F. von Brandt]. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Naturgeschichte der Vögel mit besonderer Beziehung auf Skeletbau und Vergleichende Zoologie. St. Petersburg: Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1839, Lief. 1: [1]–154, 116.)

Phaëthontes Joanne Friderico Brandt [Johann Friedrich von Brandt]. “Tentamen monographiae zoologicae generis Phaëthon.” In Spicilegia ornithologica exotica. Petropolis [Saint Petersburg]: Graeff, 1839, fasc. 1:[1]. (Antedated offprint: J. F. Brandt [J. F. von Brandt]. “Tentamen monographiae zoologicae generis Phaëthon.” Mémoires de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 6th ser., 5, Sciences naturelles 3 (Zoologie et physiologie), nos. 5–6 (1840): [239]–275, [239].) The publication order of the three 1839 sources – Mémoires, Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Naturgeschichte der Vögel, Spicilegia ornithologica exotica – is unknown to me.

Phaethon Linnaeus, 1758

Phaëthon Caroli Linnæi [Carl Linnaeus]. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th ed. Holmiæ [Stockholm]: Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, 1758, 1:134.

Phaëton Caroli a Linné [Carl Linnaeus]. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 12th ed. Homiæ [Stockholm]: Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, 1766, 1, pt. 1:219.

Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus, 1758 Red-billed Tropicbird

[Phaëthon] æthereus Caroli Linnæi [Carl Linnaeus]. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th ed. Holmiæ [Stockholm]: Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, 1758, 1:134.

P. a. aethereus Linnaeus, 1758

P. a. indicus Hume, 1876

[Phaeton] indicus A. O. H. [A. O. Hume]. “The Laccadives and the West Coast.” Stray Feathers 4, nos. 4–5–6 (1876): 413–484, 481.

Phaethon indicus W. Vincent Legge. A History of the Birds of Ceylon. London: published by author, 1880, pt. 3:1173. (Collated and republished as A History of the Birds of Ceylon. London: published by author, 1880, 2:1173.)

Phaethon aethereus indicus James Lee Peters. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, 1:78.

Phaethon lepturus Daudin, 1802 White-tailed Tropicbird

Phaëton lepturus F. M. Daudin. “Tableau des sous-classes, divisions, sous-divisions, ordres et genres des oiseaux. Avec l’indication des toutes les espèces décrites par Buffon, et leur distribution dans chaucun des genres,” by Lacepède [B. G. de Lacépéde] and F. M. Daudin. In Histoire naturelle, by Buffon [G.-L. Leclerc]. Vol. 14, Quadrupedes. Paris: Plassan, 1802, livr. 35:319?. (Collated and republished in Histoire naturelle, by Buffon [G.-L. Leclerc]. Vol. 38, Quadrupedes Vol. 14. Paris: F. Didot l’aîné and Firmin Didot, “1799” [An XI = 1802–1803], sig. 27: 319.)

Phaethon lepturus W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 26, Catalogue of the Plataleæ, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pogypodes, Alcæ and Impennes in the Collectioon of the British Museum, by R. Bowdler Sharpe and W. R. Ogilvie Grant. London: Trustees [of the British Museum (Natural History)], 1898:453.

GAVIIDAE Allen, 1897

Gaviidæ J. A. Allen. “The Proper Generic Name of the Loons.” Auk 14, no. 3 (1897): 312.

Gavia Forster, 1788

Gavia Io. Reinholdo Forster [Johann Reinhold Forster]. Enchiridion historiae naturali inserviens, quo termini et delineationes ad avium, piscium, insectorum et plantarum adumbrationes intelligendas et concinnandas, secundum methodum systematis Linnaeani continentur. Halae [Halle]: Prostat apud Hemmerde et Schwetschke, 1788:38.

Gavia stellata (Pontoppidan, 1763) Red-throated Loon

[Colymbus] Stellatus Erich Pontoppidan [Erik Pontoppidan]. Den danske Atlas eller konge-riget Dannemark, med dets naturlige Egenskaber, Elementer, Indbyggere, Væxter, Dyr og andre Affodninger, dets gamle Tildrageiser of nærværene Omstændigheder i alle Provintzer, Stæder, Kirker, Slotte of Herre-Gaarde. Forestillet ved en udförlig Lands-Beskrivelse, saa og oplyst med dertil forfærdigede Land-Kort over enhver Provintz, samt ziret med Stændernes Prospecter, Grund-Ridser, og andre merkværdige Kaaber-Stykker. Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen]: A. H. Godiche, 1763, 1:621.

Gavia stellata [Charles W.] Richmond. “Fourteenth Supplement to the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-list of North American Birds,” by J. A. Allen, Charles W. Richmond, William Brewster, Jonathan Dwight Jr., C. Hart Merriam, Robert Ridgway and Witmer Stone. Auk 25, no. 3 (1908): 343–399, 356.

Gavia arctica (Linnaeus, 1758) Black-throated Loon

[Colymbus] arcticus Caroli Linnæi [Carl Linnaeus]. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th ed. Holmiæ [Stockholm]: Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, 1758, 1:135.

Gavia arctica J. A. Allen. “The Proper Generic Name of the Loons.” Auk 14, no. 3 (1897): 312.

Gavia pacifica (Lawrence, 1858) Pacific Loon

Colymbus pacificus [George N.] Lawrence. Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Made under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853–6, According to Acts of Congress of March 8, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854. Vol. 9, General Report upon the Zoology of the Several Pacific Railroad Routes. Pt. 2 Birds, by Spencer F. Baird, with the co-operation of John Cassin and George N. Lawrence. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 78. Washington, DC: Beverly Tucker, 1858: 889.

Gavia pacifica J. A. Allen. “The Proper Generic Name of the Loons.” Auk 14, no. 3 (1897): 312.

Gavia immer (Brünnich, 1764) Common Loon

[Colymbus] Immer M. Th. Brünichii [M. T. Brünnich]. Ornithologia borealis. Sistens collectionem avium ex omnibus, Imperio danico subjectis, provinciis insulisqve borealibus Hafniæ factam, cum descriptionibus novarum, nominibus incolarum, locis natalium et icone. Hafniæ [Copenhagen]: J. C. Kall, 1764:38.

Gavia imber J. A. Allen. “The Proper Generic Name of the Loons.” Auk 14, no. 3 (1897): 312.

Gavia immer J. A. Allen, Charles W. Richmond, William Brewster, Jonathan Dwight Jr., C. Hart Merriam, Robert Ridgway and Witmer Stone. “Fourteenth Supplement to the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-list of North American Birds.” Auk 25, no. 3 (1908): 343–399, 356.

Gavia adamsii (Gray, 1859) Yellow-billed Loon

Colymbus adamsii George Robert Gray. “Description of a New Species of Diver (Colymbus).” Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, “pt. 27” [= vol. 27], pt. 2 (1859): 167.

Gavia adamsii J. A. Allen. “The Proper Generic Name of the Loons.” Auk 14, no. 3 (1897): 312.

Gavia adamsi Elliott Coues. “Early Notice of Gavia adamsi.” Auk 14, no. 4 (1897): 402.

OCEANITIDAE Forbes, 1881

Oceanitidae W. A. Forbes. “On the Petrel Called Thalassidroma nereis by Gould and Its Affinities.” Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1881, pt. 3, no. 47 (1881): 735–737, 737.

Oceanites Keyserling and Blasius, 1840

Oceanites A. Keyserling [A. von Keyserling] and J. H. Blasius. Die Wirbelthiere Europa’s. Buch 1, Die unterscheidenden Charactere. Braunschweig: Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1840:xciii.

Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl, 1820) Wilson’s Storm Petrel

Proc[ellaria] oceanica Heinrich Kuhl. “Beiträge zur Kentniss der Procellarien.” In Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie. Abt. 1, Beiträge zur Zoologie. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Hermannschen Buchhandlung, 1820:135–151, 136, pl. 10.

[Oceanites] oceanica [Hinrich Lichtenstein]. Nomenclator avium Musei zoologici berolinensis = Namenverzeichniss der in der zoologischen Sammlung der Königlichen Universität zu Berlin aufgestellten Arten von Vögeln nach den in der neueren Systematik am meisten zur Geltung gekommenen Namen der Gattungen und ihrer Unterabtheilungen. Berlin: Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1854:99.

O[ceanites] oceanicus Elliott Coues. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species of Living and Fossil Bird at Present Known from the Continent North of the Mexican and United States Boundary, Inclusive of Greenland. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1884:782.

Pelagodroma Reichenbach, 1853

Pelagodroma L. Reichenbach. “Die Vögel. The Birds. Aves. Les oiseaux – Systema avium.” In Handbuch der speziellen Ornithologie. Lief. 3, Avium systema nature. Das natürliche System der Vögel. Mit hundert Tafeln größtenteils Original-Abbildungen der bis jetzt entdeckten fast zwölfhundert typischen Formen = Ornithologie méthodique; ou, Exposé des genres des oiseaux de toutes les parties du monde, réunissant les découvertes les plus récentes représentant a peu près mille et deux cent types charactérestiques. Dresden: Expedition der Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte, “1850” [1853]: iv.

Pelagodroma marina (Latham, 1790) White-faced Storm Petrel

[Procellaria] marina Joannis Latham [John Latham]. Index ornithologicus; sive, Systema ornithologiæ, complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates, adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. Londini [London]: published by author, 1790, 2:826.

[Pelagodroma] marina L. Reichenbach. “Die Vögel. The Birds. Aves. Les oiseaux – Systema avium.” In Handbuch der speziellen Ornithologie. Lief. 3, Avium systema nature. Das natürliche System der Vögel. Mit hundert Tafeln größtenteils Original-Abbildungen der bis jetzt entdeckten fast zwölfhundert typischen Formen = Ornithologie méthodique; ou, Exposé des genres des oiseaux de toutes les parties du monde, réunissant les découvertes les plus récentes représentant a peu près mille et deux cent types charactérestiques. Dresden: Expedition der Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte, “1850” [1853]:iv.

Fregetta Bonaparte, 1855

Fregetta [C.] Bonaparte. “Note sur les oiseaux des îles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius.” Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences 41, no. 26 (1855): 1109–1115, 1113.

Fregetta tropica (Gould, 1844) Black-bellied Storm Petrel

Thalassidroma tropica John Gould. “On the Family Procellaridæ, with Descriptions of Ten New Species.” Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13, no. 85 (1844): 360–368, 366.

[Fregetta] tropica Ch. Bonaparte. “Espèces nouvelles d’oiseaux d’Asie et d’Amérique, et tableaux paralléliquesdes pélagiens ou Gaviæ.” Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences 42, no. 17 (1856): 764–776, 769.

DIOMEDEIDAE Gray, 1840

Diomedeinae George Robert Gray. A List of the Genera of Birds, with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. Compiled from Various Sources. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1840:78.

Diomedeidae Elliott Coues. “Critical Review of the Family Procellariidæ. Part 5: Embracing the Diomedeinæ and the Halodrominæ. With a General Supplement.” Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1866 (May 1866), sig. 11, 172–197, 173.

Diomedea Linnaeus, 1758

Diomedea Caroli Linnæi [Carl Linnaeus]. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th ed. Holmiæ [Stockholm]: Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, 1758, 1:132.

Diomedea dabbenena Mathews, 1929 Tristan Albatross

Diomedea dabbenena Gregory M. Mathews. “Descriptions of a New Genus, New Forms, and New Names: Zosterops lateralis norfolkensis, Catharacta antarctica batchelori, Megapodius reinwardt yorki, Cyrtostomus frenatus valia, Diomedea dabbenena, Glycifohia and G. gonada.” Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 50, no. 350 (1929): 10–11, 11. (After lumping with Diomeda exulans, recommendation to species level by R. Gales. “Albatross Populations: Status and Threats.” In Albatross Biology and Conservation, edited by Graham Robertson and Rosemary Gales. Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1998:20–45, 34. (Not seen.))

Diomedea exulans dabbenena Robert Cushman Murphy. Oceanic Birds of South America: A Study of Species of the Related Coasts and Seas, Including the American Quadrant of Antarctica, Based upon the Brewster–Sanford Collection in the American Museum of Natural History. New York: MacMillan, 1936, 1:213.

Thalassarche Reichenbach, 1853

Thalassarche L. Reichenbach. “Die Vögel. The Birds. Aves. Les oiseaux – Systema avium.” In Handbuch der speziellen Ornithologie. Lief. 3, Avium systema nature. Das natürliche System der Vögel. Mit hundert Tafeln größtenteils Original-Abbildungen der bis jetzt entdeckten fast zwölfhundert typischen Formen = Ornithologie méthodique; ou, Exposé des genres des oiseaux de toutes les parties du monde, réunissant les découvertes les plus récentes représentant a peu près mille et deux cent types charactérestiques. Dresden: Expedition der Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte, “1850” [1853]: v.

Thalassarche melanophris (Temminck, 1828) Black-browed Albatross

Diomedea melanophris C. J. Temminck. Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, by C. J. Temminck and Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse [G. M. J. Meiffren Laugier]. Paris: F. G. Levrault, 1828, livr. 77: ???, pl. 456. (Collated and republished in Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, édition in-folio et in-4⁰ de l’Imprimerie royale, 1770, by C. J. Temminck and Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse. Paris: F. G. Levrault, 1838, 5: [383], pl. 456.) Note: Listed in C. J. Temminck. “Genre Albatros. Genus Diomedea. Linné.” In Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, by C. J. Temminck and Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse. Paris: F. G. Levrault, 1827, livr. 75: ???. (Collated and republished in Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, édition in-folio et in-4⁰ de l’Imprimerie royale, 1770, by C. J. Temminck and Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse. Paris: F. G. Levrault, 1838, 5: [369–380, 379].

D[iomedea] melanophrys George Robert Gray. The Genera of Birds: Comprising Their Generic Characters, a Notice of the Habits of Each Genus, and an Extensive List of Species Referred to Their Several Genera. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, June 1844, pt. 2:???. (Collated and republished in George Robert Gray. The Genera of Birds: Comprising Their Generic Characters, a Notice of the Habits of Each Genus, and an Extensive List of Species Referred to Their Several Genera. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849, 3: [clxxix].

Thalassarche melanophrys Enrico Hillyer Giglioli. Note intorno alla distribuzione della fauna vertebrata nell-oceano prese durante un viaggio intorno al Globo 1865–68. Firenze [Florence]: Stabilimeto di Giuseppe Civelli, 1870:57.

Thalassarche melanophris Gregory M. Mathews. The Birds of Australia. London: Witherby, 1912, 2, pt. 3:264. (Collated and republished in The Birds of Australia. London: Witherby, 1913, 2:264.)

Thalassarche cauta (Gould, 1841) Shy Albatross

Diomedea cauta J. Gould. “Descriptions of New Birds from Australia [Part 3].” Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, pt. 8, no. 95 (“1840” [1841]): 169–178, 177.

Thalassarche cauta Enrico Hillyer Giglioli. Note intorno alla distribuzione della fauna vertebrata nell-oceano prese durante un viaggio intorno al Globo 1865–68. Firenze [Florence]: Stabilimeto di Giuseppe Civelli, 1870:58.

Thalassarche chlororhynchos (Gmelin, 1789) Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross

[Diomedea] chlororhynchos Jo. Fridr. Gmelin. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species: cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, by Caroli a Linné [Carl Linnaeus]. 13th edn., edited by Jo. Frid. Gmelin. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Impensis Georg. Emanuel. Beer, 1789, 1, pt. 2:568.

T[halassarche] chlororhynchus Enrico Hillyer Giglioli. Note intorno alla distribuzione della fauna vertebrata nell-oceano prese durante un viaggio intorno al Globo 1865–68. Firenze [Florence]: Stabilimeto di Giuseppe Civelli, 1870:58.

Thalassarche chlororhynchos A. E. Brehm. Brehms Thierleben. Allgemeine Kunde des Thierreichs. Abt. 2, Die Vögel. Bd. 3, Scharrvögel, Kurzflügler, Stelzvögel, Zahnschnäbler, Seeflieger, Ruderfüßler, Taucher. Leipzig: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1879:559.

HYDROBATIDAE Reichenow, 1908

Hydrobatinae Ant. Reichenow. “Vögel des Weltmeeres. Die Meeresvögel der östlichen Erdhälfte.” In Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903 im Auftrag des Reichsamtes des Inneren, edited by Erich von Drygalski. Bd. 9, Zoologie. Berlin: Verlag von Georg Reimer, 1908, Bd. 1:435–567, 469.

Hydrobatidae Gregory M. Mathews. The Birds of Australia. London: Witherby, 1912, 2, pt. 1:9. (Collated and republished in The Birds of Australia. London: Witherby, 1913, 2:9.) Since Hydrobatidae had been widely used invalidly as a synonym for Cinclidae, i.e. Dippers instead of Northern Storm Petrels, after C.-D. Degland. Ornithologie européenne; ou, Catalogue analytique et raisonné des oiseux observés en Europe. Paris: Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 1849, 1:445, the ICZN assigned authorship of Hydrobatidae to Mathews: International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. “Opinion 1696. Hydrobatidae Mathews, 1912 (1865)(Aves, Procellariiformes): conserved.” Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49, pt. 3 (1992): 250–251, 250.

Hydrobates Boie, 1822

Hydrobates F. Boie. “Ueber Classification, insonderheit der europäischen Vögel.” Isis von Oken, Jg. 1822, Bd. 1, Heft 5 (1822): cols. 545–564, 562.

Hydrobates pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758) European Storm Petrel

[Procellaria] pelagica Caroli Linnæi [Carl Linnaeus]. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th ed. Holmiæ [Stockholm]: Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, 1758, 1:131.

Hydrobates pelagica F. Boie. “Ornithologische Beiträge. II Lieferung.” Ornis, oder das Neueste und Wichtigste der Vögelkunde und Anziehendes aus der Thierkunde, Heft 2 (1826): 126–145, 141.

H[ydrobates] pelagicus Brehm. “Beschluß der Uebersicht der deutschen Vögel.” [= “Uebersicht der deutschen Vögelarten [Part 2].”] Isis von Oken 23, Heft 10 (1830): cols. 985–1013, 995.

Hydrobates pelagicus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Hydrobates pelagicus melitensis (Schembri, 1843)

Thalassidroma melitensis Antonio Schembri. Catalogo ornitologico del gruppo di Malta. Malta [sic]: Tipografia Anglo-Maltese, 1843:118. Lumped with pelagica/us since H. E. Strickland. “On Thalassidroma melitensis, Schembri, a Supposed New Species of Stormy Petrel.” Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14, no. 92 (1844): 348–349, 349.

Thalassidroma pelagica melitensis Gregory M. Mathews. “A Check-list of the Order Procellariiformes.” Novitates zoologicae 39, no. 2 (1934): 153–206, 187.

H[ydrobates] p[elagicus] melitensis George Sangster, J. Martin Collinson, Pierre-André Crochet, Alan G. Knox, David T. Parkin and Stephen C. Votier. “Taxonomic Recommendations for British Birds: Eighth Report.” Ibis 154, no. 4 (2012): 874-883, 877. Recommendation to subspecies level by Christine Cagnon, Béatrice Lauga, G. Hémery and C. Mouchès. “Phylogeographic Differentiation of Storm Petrels (Hydrobates pelagicus) Based on Cytochrome b Mitochondrial DNA Variation.” Marine Biology 145, no. 6 (2004): 1257–1264, 1262.

Hydrobates monorhis (Swinhoe, 1867) Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel

Thalassidroma monorhis Robert Swinhoe. “Jottings on Birds from My Amoy Journal [Part 2].” Ibis 3, no. 2 (1867): 385–413, 386.

Oceanodroma monorhis Leonhard Stejneger. “Notes on a Third Installment of Japanese Birds in the Science College Museum, Tokyo, Japan, with Descriptions of New Species.” Proceedings of the United States National Museum 16, no. 957 (1893): 615–638, 622.

Hydrobates monorhis Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th ed. Vol. 1, Non–passerines, edited by Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. Eastbourne: Aves Press, 2013: ??. (Republished online in “H&M4 Checklist Family by Family: Hydrobatidae – Boreal Storm-petrels.” Trust for Avian Systematics. Accessed 15 November 2022. <https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=19>.) Genus-change recommendation by Bruce C. Robertson, Brent M. Stephenson and Sharyn J. Goldstien. “When Rediscovery Is Not Enough: Taxonomic Uncertainty Hinders Conservation of a Critically Endangered Bird.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61, no. 3 (2011): 949–952. (Not seen.)

Hydrobates matsudairae (Kuroda, Nm, 1922) Matsudaira’s Storm Petrel

Oceanodroma melania matsudariæ Nagamichi Kuroda. “Remarks on the Japanese Petrels of the Genus Oceodroma.” Ibis, 11th series, 4, no. 2 (1922): 309–314, 311. Rectified by author as “misprint for matsudairae” in Oliver L. Austin Jr. and Nagamichi Kuroda. “The Birds ofJapan: Their Status and Distribution.” Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 109, no. 4 (1953): [277]–612, 314.

O[ceanodroma] matsudairae Oliver L. Austin Jr. “Notes on Some Petrels of the North Pacific.” Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 107, no. 7 (1952): 391–407, 397.

Hydrobates matsudairae Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th ed. Vol. 1, Non–passerines, edited by Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. Eastbourne: Aves Press, 2013: ??. (Republished online in “H&M4 Checklist Family by Family: Hydrobatidae – Boreal Storm-petrels.” Trust for Avian Systematics. Accessed 15 November 2022. <https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=19>.) Genus-change recommendation by Bruce C. Robertson, Brent M. Stephenson and Sharyn J. Goldstien. “When Rediscovery Is Not Enough: Taxonomic Uncertainty Hinders Conservation of a Critically Endangered Bird.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61, no. 3 (2011): 949–952. (Not seen.)

Hydrobates leucorhous (Vieillot, 1818) Leach’s Storm Petrel

Procellaria leucorhoa Louis-Pierre Vieillot [Louis Pierre Vieillot]. “Le Pétrel-puffin fuligineux, Procellaria leucorhoa, Vieill.” In Nouveau dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l’agriculture, à l’économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc., edited by Société de naturalistes et d’agriculteurs. 2nd ed. Paris: Deterville, 1817, 25:422–423, 422.

Procellaria leucorrhoa H. Schlegel. “Procellariae.” In Muséum d’histoire naturelle des Pays-Bas. Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement, edited by H. Schlegel, Monographie 22. Leide [Leiden]: E. J. Brill, 1863, livr. 4, Procellariae: 3. (Collated and republished in Muséum d’histoire naturelle des Pays-Bas. Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement, edited by H. Schlegel. Leide [Leiden]: E. J. Brill, [1867?], 6, Procellariae: 3.)

Oceanodroma leucorhoa Leonhard Stejneger. “Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Commander Islands and in Kamtschatka.” Bulletin of the United States National Museum, no. 29 (1885): 97.

Hydrobates leucorrhous Otto Leege-Juist [Otto Leege]. “Oceanodroma leucorrhoa (Vieill.) an der ostfrisische Küste.” 486–487, 486

Hydrobates leucorhous Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th ed. Vol. 1, Non–passerines, edited by Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. Eastbourne: Aves Press, 2013: ??. (Republished online in “H&M4 Checklist Family by Family: Hydrobatidae – Boreal Storm-petrels.” Trust for Avian Systematics. Accessed 15 November 2022. <https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=19>.) Genus-change recommendation by Bruce C. Robertson, Brent M. Stephenson and Sharyn J. Goldstien. “When Rediscovery Is Not Enough: Taxonomic Uncertainty Hinders Conservation of a Critically Endangered Bird.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61, no. 3 (2011): 949–952. (Not seen.)

Hydrobates castro (Harcourt, 1851) Band-rumped Storm Petrel

Thalassidroma castro Edward Vernon Harcourt. A Sketch of Madeira: Containing Information for the Traveller, or Invallid Visitor. London: John Murray, 1851:123.

Oceanodroma castro W. R. Ogilvie Grant [W. R. Ogilvie-Grant]. “Letter from W. R. Ogilvie Grant.” Ibis, 7th ser. 4, no. 14 (1898): 313–314, 314.

Hydrobates castro Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th ed. Vol. 1, Non–passerines, edited by Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. Eastbourne: Aves Press, 2013: ??. (Republished online in “H&M4 Checklist Family by Family: Hydrobatidae – Boreal Storm-petrels.” Trust for Avian Systematics. Accessed 15 November 2022. <https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=19>.) Genus-change recommendation by Bruce C. Robertson, Brent M. Stephenson and Sharyn J. Goldstien. “When Rediscovery Is Not Enough: Taxonomic Uncertainty Hinders Conservation of a Critically Endangered Bird.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61, no. 3 (2011): 949–952. (Not seen.)

Hydrobates monteiroi (Bolton, Smith, Gómez-Díaz, Friesen, Medeiros, Bried, Roscales and Furness, 2008) Monteiro’s Storm Petrel

Oceanodroma monteiroi Mark Bolton, Andrea L. Smith, Elena Gómez-Díaz, Vicki L. Friesen, Renata Medeiros, Joël Bried, Jose L. Roscales and Robert W. Furness. “Monteiro’s Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monteiroi: A New Species from the Azores.” Ibis 150, no. 4 (2008): 717-727, 722.

Hydrobates monteiroi Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th ed. Vol. 1, Non–passerines, edited by Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. Eastbourne: Aves Press, 2013: ??. (Republished online in “H&M4 Checklist Family by Family: Hydrobatidae – Boreal Storm-petrels.” Trust for Avian Systematics. Accessed 15 November 2022. <https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=19>.) Genus-change recommendation by Bruce C. Robertson, Brent M. Stephenson and Sharyn J. Goldstien. “When Rediscovery Is Not Enough: Taxonomic Uncertainty Hinders Conservation of a Critically Endangered Bird.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61, no. 3 (2011): 949–952. (Not seen.)

Hydrobates jabejabe (Barboza du Bocage, 1875) Cape Verde Storm Petrel

Thalissidroma jabejabe J. V. Barbosa du Bocage. “Observações ácera do ‘Corvo’ do Archipelago de Cabo-Verde.” Jornal de sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes 5, no. 18 (1875): 113–120, 120.

Oceanodroma jabejabe George Sangster, J. Martin Collinson, Pierre-André Crochet, Alan G. Knox, David T. Parkin and Stephen C. Votier. “Taxonomic Recommendations for British Birds: Eighth Report.” Ibis 154, no. 4 (2012): 874-883, 876. After Mark Bolton. “Playback Experiments Indicate Absence of Vocal Recognition among Temporally and Geographically Separated Populations of Madeiran Storm-petrels Oceanodroma castro.” Ibis 149, no. 2 (2008): 255-263. (Not seen.)

Hydrobates jabejabe Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th ed. Vol. 1, Non–passerines, edited by Edward C. Dickinson and J. V. Remsen Jr. Eastbourne: Aves Press, 2013: ??. (Republished online in “H&M4 Checklist Family by Family: Hydrobatidae – Boreal Storm-petrels.” Trust for Avian Systematics. Accessed 15 November 2022. <https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=19>.) Genus-change recommendation by Bruce C. Robertson, Brent M. Stephenson and Sharyn J. Goldstien. “When Rediscovery Is Not Enough: Taxonomic Uncertainty Hinders Conservation of a Critically Endangered Bird.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61, no. 3 (2011): 949–952. (Not seen.)

PROCELLARIIDAE Leach, 1820

Procellaridæ W. E. Leach. Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum. 17th ed. London: Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1820:68*.

Procellariidae Elliott Coues. “A Critical Review of the Family Procellariidæ. Part III: Embracing the Fulmareæ.” Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, no. 1 (Jan’y, Feb’y and March, 1866): 25–33, 25.

Macronectes Richmond, 1905

Macronectes Chas. W. Richmond. “New Generic Name for the Giant Fulmar.” Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 18, no. 11 (1905): 76.

Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin, 1789) Southern Giant Petrel

Procellaria gigantea Jo. Fridr. Gmelin. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species: cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, by Caroli a Linné [Carl Linnaeus]. 13th edn., edited by Jo. Frid. Gmelin. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Impensis Georg. Emanuel. Beer, 1789, 1, pt. 2:563.

Macronectes giganteus Frederick Du Cane Godman [Frederick DuCane Godman]. A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares). London: Witherby, 1909, pt. 4:261. (Collated and republished as A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares). London: Witherby, 1910:261.

Fulmarus Stephens, 1826

Fulmarus James Francis Stephens. General Zoology; or, Systematic Natural History, Commenced by the Late George Shaw M.D. F.R.S. Vol. 13, pt. 1, Birds. London: J. and A. Arch; Longman, Rees; E. Jeffery and Son; J. Mawman; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; J. Booth; Sherwood; G. B. Whittaker; R. Scholey; S. Bagster; Rodwell and Martin; Saunders and Hodgson; Hamilton, Adams; Simpkin and Marshall; J. Duncan; T. and J. Allman; W. J. and J. Maynard; and Wightman and Cramp, 1826:233.

Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761) Northern Fulmar

Procellaria glacialis Caroli Linnæi [Carl Linnaeus]. Fauna svecica, sistens animalia sveciæ regni: mammalia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes, distributa per classes & ordines, genera & species, cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, locis natalium, descriptionibus insectorum. 2nd edn. Stockholmiæ: Sumtu & Literis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, 1761:51.

Fulmarus glacialis James Francis Stephens. General Zoology; or, Systematic Natural History, Commenced by the Late George Shaw M.D. F.R.S. Vol. 13, pt. 1, Birds. London: J. and A. Arch; Longman, Rees; E. Jeffery and Son; J. Mawman; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; J. Booth; Sherwood; G. B. Whittaker; R. Scholey; S. Bagster; Rodwell and Martin; Saunders and Hodgson; Hamilton, Adams; Simpkin and Marshall; J. Duncan; T. and J. Allman; W. J. and J. Maynard; and Wightman and Cramp, 1826:234.

Daption Stephens, 1826

Daption James Francis Stephens. General Zoology; or, Systematic Natural History, Commenced by the Late George Shaw M.D. F.R.S. Vol. 13, pt. 1, Birds. London: J. and A. Arch; Longman, Rees; E. Jeffery and Son; J. Mawman; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; J. Booth; Sherwood; G. B. Whittaker; R. Scholey; S. Bagster; Rodwell and Martin; Saunders and Hodgson; Hamilton, Adams; Simpkin and Marshall; J. Duncan; T. and J. Allman; W. J. and J. Maynard; and Wightman and Cramp, 1826:239.

Daption capense (Linnaeus, 1758) Cape Petrel

[Procellaria] capensis Caroli Linnæi [Carl Linnaeus]. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th ed. Holmiæ [Stockholm]: Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, 1758, 1:132.

Daption capensis James Francis Stephens. General Zoology; or, Systematic Natural History, Commenced by the Late George Shaw M.D. F.R.S. Vol. 13, pt. 1, Birds. London: J. and A. Arch; Longman, Rees; E. Jeffery and Son; J. Mawman; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; J. Booth; Sherwood; G. B. Whittaker; R. Scholey; S. Bagster; Rodwell and Martin; Saunders and Hodgson; Hamilton, Adams; Simpkin and Marshall; J. Duncan; T. and J. Allman; W. J. and J. Maynard; and Wightman and Cramp, 1826:241.

Daption capense O. Finsch. “On the Birds of the Snares Islands, New Zealand.” Ibis, 5th ser., 6, no. 23 (1888): 307–309, 309. Gender confirmed by George E. Watson. “The Correct Gender of Daption Stephens 1826.” Auk 91, no. 2 (1974): 419–421, 420.

Daptium capense [Elliott Coues]. The Coues Check List of North American Birds. 2nd ed. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1882:126.

Daptrion capensis Ladislas Taczanowski [Władysław Taczanowski]. Ornithologie du Pérou. Rennes: Typographie Oberthur, 1886, 3:465.

Pterodroma Bonaparte, 1856

Pterodroma Ch. Bonaparte. “Espèces nouvelles d’oiseaux d’Asie et d’Amérique, et tableaux paralléliques des pélagiens ou Gaviæ.” Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences 42, no. 17 (1856): 764–776, 768.

Pterodroma incerta (Schlegel, 1863) Atlantic Petrel

Procellaria incerta H. Schlegel. Muséum d’histoire naturelle des Pays-Bas. Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement, edited by H. Schlegel. Livr. 4, Monographie 22, “Procellariae.” Leide [Leiden]: E. J. Brill, 1863:9. (Collated and republished in Muséum d’histoire naturelle des Pays-Bas. Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement, edited by H. Schlegel. Vol. 6, Monographie 22, “Procellariae.” Leide [Leiden]: E. J. Brill, [1876]: 9.)

Pterodroma incerta Leverett Mills Loomis. “Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905–1906.” Part 12, “A Review of the Albatrosses, Petrels, and Diving Petrels.” Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th ser., 2, pt. 2 (1918): 1–187, 55. (Collated and republished in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th ser., 2, pt. 2 (1926): 1–187, 55.)

Pterodroma mollis (Gould, 1844) Soft-plumaged Petrel

Procellaria mollis John Gould. “On the Family Procellaridæ, with Descriptions of Ten New Species.” Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13, no. 85 (1844): 360–368, 363.

Pterodroma (Æstrelata) mollis E. P. Ramsay. “Tabular List of All the Australian Birds at Present Known – Showing the Distribution of the Species.” Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2, pt. 2 (1878): 177–212, 202.

Pterodroma mollis Gregory M. Mathews. The Birds of Australia. London: Witherby, 1912, 2, pt. 2:157. (Collated and republished in The Birds of Australia. London: Witherby, 1913, 2:157.

Pterodroma madeira Mathews, 1934 Zino’s Petrel

Pterodroma mollis madeira G. M. Mathews. “Description of a New Species of the Soft-plumaged Petrel (Pterodroma mollis madeira) from Madeira.” Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 54, no. 378 (1934): 161.

Pterodroma madeira W. R. P. Bourne. “The Soft-plumaged Petrel, the Gon-gon and the Freira, Pterodroma mollis, P. feae and P. madeira.” Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 103, no. 2 (1983): 52–58, 57, also 52, 56.

Pterodroma feae (Salvadori, 1900) Fea’s Petrel

Œstrelata feæ T. Salvadori. “On Œstrelata mollis (Gould) and the Allied Species Living at Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands.” Ibis, 7th ser., 6, no. 22 (1900): 298–303, 302.

Pterodroma feae W. R. P. Bourne. “The Soft-plumaged Petrel, the Gon-gon and the Freira, Pterodroma mollis, P. feae and P. madeira.” Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 103, no. 2 (1983): 52–58, 57, also 52, 56.

Pterodroma deserta Mathews, 1934 Desertas Petrel

Pterodroma mollis deserta Gregory M. Mathews. “Notes on the Soft-plumaged Petrel (Pterodroma mollis) and Its Subspecies.” Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 54, no. 379 (1934): 178–179, 179.

Pterodroma deserta Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and Sound Approach. Petrels Night and Day: A Sound Approach Guide. Poole: The Sound Approach, 2008. (Not seen.)

Pterodroma cahow (Nichols & Mowbray, 1916) Bermuda Petrel

Æstrelata cahow John T. Nichols and Louis L. Mowbray. “Two New Forms of Petrels from the Bermuda.” Auk 33, no. 2 (1916): 194–195, 194.

Pterodroma cahow Arthur Cleveland Bent. “Life Histories of North American Petrels and Pelicans and Their Allies: Order Tubinares and Order Steganopodes.” United States National Museum Bulletin, no. 121 (1922): 112

Pterodroma hasitata (Kuhl, 1820) Black-capped Petrel

Proc[ellaria] hasitata Heinrich Kuhl. Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Hermannschen Buchhandlung, 1820:142.

Pterodroma hasitata Ernst Hartert. A Hand-list of British Birds, with an Account of the Distribution of Each Species in the British Isles and Abroad, by Ernst Hartert, F. C. R. Jourdain, N. F. Ticehurst and H. F. Witherby. London: Witherby, 1912:154.

Pterodroma arminjoniana (Giglioli and Salvadori, 1869) Trindade Petrel

Æstrelata arminjoniana Henry Hillyer Giglioli [Enrico Hillyer Giglioli] and Thomas Salvadori [Tommaso Salvadori]. “On Some New Procellariidae Collected during a Voyage round the World in 1865–68 by H.M.I.’s S. ‘Magenta’.” Ibis, 2nd ser., 5, no. 17 (1869): 61–68, 62. Dated earlier though published only slightly later: Enrico Giglioli and Tommaso Salvadori. “Nuove specie di Procellari raccolte durante il viaggio fatto intorno al mondo negli anni 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868 dalla pirocorvetta italiana Magenta.” Atti della Società italiana di scienze naturali 11, fasc. 3 (“1868” [Feb. 1869]): 450–458, 452.

Pterodroma arminjoniana Leverett Mills Loomis. “Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905–1906.” Part 12, “A Review of the Albatrosses, Petrels, and Diving Petrels.” Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th ser., 2, pt. 2 (1918): 1–187, 20. (Collated and republished in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th ser., 2, pt. 2 (1926): 1–187, 20.)

Procellaria Linnaeus, 1758

Procellaria Caroli Linnæi [Carl Linnaeus]. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th ed. Holmiæ [Stockholm]: Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, 1758, 1:131.

Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus, 1758 White-chinned Petrel

[Procellaria] æquinoctialis Caroli Linnæi [Carl Linnaeus]. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10th ed. Holmiæ [Stockholm]: Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, 1758, 1:132.

Calonectris Mathews and Iredale, 1915

Calonectris Gregory M. Mathews and Tom Iredale. “On Some Petrels from the North-east Pacific Ocean.” Ibis, 10th ser., 3, no. 3 (1915): 572–609, 592.

Calonectris leucomelas (Temminck, 1836) Streaked Shearwater

Procellaria leucomelas C. J. Temminck. Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, by C. J. Temminck and Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse [G. M. J. Meiffren Laugier]. Paris: F. G. Levrault, 1836, livr. 99: ???, pl. 587. (Collated and republished in Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, édition in-folio et in-4⁰ de l’Imprimerie royale, 1770, by C. J. Temminck and Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse. Paris: F. G. Levrault, 1838, 5: [359], pl. 587.)

Calonectris leucomelas Gregory M. Mathews and Tom Iredale. “On Some Petrels from the North-east Pacific Ocean.” Ibis, 10th ser., 3, no. 3 (1915): 572–609, 594.

Calonectris diomedea (Scopoli, 1769) Scopoli’s Shearwater

Procellaria diomedea Ioannis Antonii Scopoli [Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]. Annus I historico-naturalis. Descriptiones avium musei proprii earumque rariorum, quas vidit in vivario augustiis imperatoris, et in museo excell. comitis Francisci Annib. Turriani. Lipsiæ [Leipzig]: Sumtib. Christ. Gottlob Hilscheri, 1769:74.

Calonectris diomedea Harry C. Oberholser. “Ninth Annual List of Proposed Changes in the A.O.U. ‘Check-list’ of North American Birds.” Auk 41, no. 4 (1924): 590–595, 591. After G. M. Mathews and T. Iredale. “More Notes of Interest.” Australian Avian Record 5, no. 2–3 (1923): 45–73, 57–58. (Not seen.)

Calonectris borealis (Cory, 1881) Cory’s Shearwater

Puffinus borealis Charles B. Cory. “Description of a New Species of the Family Procellariidae.” Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 6, no. 2 (1881): 84.

Calonectris borealis George Sangster, J. Martin Collinson, Pierre-André Crochet, Alan G. Knox, David T. Parkin and Stephen C. Votier. “Taxonomic Recommendations for British Birds: Eighth Report.” Ibis 154, no. 4 (2012): 874-883, 876. Recommendation to species level by E. Gómez-Díaz, J. González-Solís and M. A. Peinado. “Population Structure in a Highly Pelagic Seabird, the Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris diomedea: an Examination of Genetics, Morphology and Ecology.” Marine Ecology Progress Series 382 (2009): 197–209, 207.

Calonectris edwardsii (Oustalet, 1883) Cape Verde Shearwater

Puffinus Edwardsii E. Oustalet. “Description d’espèces nouvelles d’oiseaux provenant des iles du Cap-Vert.” Annales des sciences naturelles: Zoologie et paléontologie 16, art. 5 (1883): 1–2, 1.

Calonectris (diomedea) edwardsii Christian Jouanin and Jean-Louis Mougin. “Order Procellariiformes.” In Check-list of Birds of the World. 2nd ed. Edited by Ernst Mayer and G. William Cottrell. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1979, 1:89.

Calonectris edwardsii David Armitage Bannerman and W. Mary Bannerman. Birds of the Atlantic Islands. Vol. 4, History of the Birds of the Cape Verde Islands. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1968:170.

Ardenna Reichenbach, 1853

Ardenna L. Reichenbach. “Die Vögel. The Birds. Aves. Les oiseaux – Systema avium.” In Handbuch der speziellen Ornithologie. Lief. 3, Avium systema nature. Das natürliche System der Vögel. Mit hundert Tafeln größtenteils Original-Abbildungen der bis jetzt entdeckten fast zwölfhundert typischen Formen = Ornithologie méthodique; ou, Exposé des genres des oiseaux de toutes les parties du monde, réunissant les découvertes les plus récentes représentant a peu près mille et deux cent types charactérestiques. Dresden: Expedition der Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte, “1850” [1853]: iv.

Ardenna pacifica (Gmelin, 1789) Wedge-tailed Shearwater

[Procellaria] pacifica Jo. Fridr. Gmelin. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species: cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, by Caroli a Linné [Carl Linnaeus]. 13th edn., edited by Jo. Frid. Gmelin. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Impensis Georg. Emanuel. Beer, 1789, 1, pt. 2:560.

Ardenna (Thyellodroma) pacifica John Penhallurick and Michael Wink. “Analysis of the taxonomy and nomenclature of the Procellariiformes based on complete nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene.” Emu 104, no. 2 (2004): 125–147, 142.

Ardenna pacifica Les Christidis and Walter E. Boles. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2008:18, 94.

Ardenna grisea (Gmelin, 1789) Sooty Shearwater

[Procellaria] grisea Jo. Fridr. Gmelin. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species: cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, by Caroli a Linné [Carl Linnaeus]. 13th edn., edited by Jo. Frid. Gmelin. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Impensis Georg. Emanuel. Beer, 1789, 1, pt. 2:564.

[Ardenna] grisea John Penhallurick and Michael Wink. “Analysis of the taxonomy and nomenclature of the Procellariiformes based on complete nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene.” Emu 104, no. 2 (2004): 125–147, 141.

Ardenna tenuirostris (Temminck, 1836) Short-tailed Shearwater

Procellaria tenuirostris C. J. Temminck. Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, by C. J. Temminck and Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse [G. M. J. Meiffren Laugier]. Paris: F. G. Levrault, 1836, livr. 99: ???. (Collated and republished in Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d’oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, édition in-folio et in-4⁰ de l’Imprimerie royale, 1770, by C. J. Temminck and Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse. Paris: F. G. Levrault, 1838, 5: [360].)

[Ardenna] tenuirostris John Penhallurick and Michael Wink. “Analysis of the taxonomy and nomenclature of the Procellariiformes based on complete nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene.” Emu 104, no. 2 (2004): 125–147, 141.

Ardenna carneipes (Gould, 1844) Flesh-footed Shearwater

Puffinus carneipes John Gould. “On the Family Procellaridæ, with Descriptions of Ten New Species.” Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13, no. 85 (1844): 360–368, 365.

Ardenna carneipes Harry C. Oberholser. “Notes on the Genus Puffinus Brisson.” Auk 34, no. 4 (1917): 471–475, 475. Nevertheless regarded as Puffinus carneipes, genus change again proposed by John Penhallurick and Michael Wink. “Analysis of the taxonomy and nomenclature of the Procellariiformes based on complete nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene.” Emu 104, no. 2 (2004): 125–147, 141.

Ardenna gravis (O’Reilly, 1818) Great Shearwater

Procellaria Gravis Bernard O’Reilly. Greenland, the Adjacent Seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, Illustrated in a Voyage to Davis’s Strait, during the Summer of 1817. London: aldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1818:140.

Ardenna gravis Harry C. Oberholser. “Notes on the Genus Puffinus Brisson.” Auk 34, no. 4 (1917): 471–475, 475. Nevertheless regarded as Puffinus carneipes, genus change again proposed by John Penhallurick and Michael Wink. “Analysis of the taxonomy and nomenclature of the Procellariiformes based on complete nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene.” Emu 104, no. 2 (2004): 125–147, 141.

Puffinus [(Ardenna)] gravis Storrs L. Olson and Pamela C. Rasmussen. “Miocene and Pliocene Birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina.” In “Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, III,” edited by Clayton E. Ray and David J. Bohaska. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, no. 90 (2001): 233–365, 254.

Puffinus Brisson, 1760

Puffinus M. J. Brisson. Ornithologie; ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés. A laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espece, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms quils leur ont donnés, ceux que leur ont donnés les différentes nations, & les noms vulgaires = Ornithologia; sive, Synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates. Cum accurata cujusque speciei descriptione, citacionibus auctorum de iis tractantium, nominibus eis ab ipsis & nationibus impositis, nominibusque vulgaribus. Paris: Cl. Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1760, 1:56, 6:[129], 131.

Puffinus puffinus (Brünnich, 1764) Manx Shearwater

[Procellaria] Puffinus M. Th. Brünichii [M. T. Brünnich]. Ornithologia borealis. Sistens collectionem avium ex omnibus, Imperio danico subjectis, provinciis insulisqve borealibus Hafniæ factam, cum descriptionibus novarum, nominibus incolarum, locis natalium et icone. Hafniæ [Copenhagen]: J. C. Kall, 1764:29.

[Puffinus] puffinus [Hinrich Lichtenstein]. Nomenclator avium Musei zoologici berolinensis = Namenverzeichniss der in der zoologischen Sammlung der Königlichen Universität zu Berlin aufgestellten Arten von Vögeln nach den in der neueren Systematik am meisten zur Geltung gekommenen Namen der Gattungen und ihrer Unterabtheilungen. Berlin: Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1854:100.

Puffinus yelkouan (Acerbi, 1827) Yelkouan Shearwater

Procellaria Yelkouan G. Acerbi. “Intorno ad una specie di Procellaria osservata nel-l’Ellesponto, nella Propontidee nel Bosforo Tracio.” Biblioteca Italiana 47 (Agosto 1827): 294–298, 297.

Puffinus yelkouan Carolo Luciano Bonaparte [Charles Lucien Bonaparte]. Conspectus generum avium. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: E. J. Brill, 1857, sig. 26: 197. (Collated and republished as Conspectus generum avium. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: E. J. Brill, 1857, 2:205.)

Puffinus mauretanicus Lowe, 1921 Balearic Shearwater

Puffinus puffinus mauretanicus Percy R. Lowe. “Description of a New Race of Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus mauretanicus) from the Western End of the Mediterranean.” Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 41, no. 261 (1921): 140–141, 140.

Puffinus mauretanicus Noel Mayaud [Noël Mayaud]. “Contribution à l’étude de la mue des puffins.” Alauda, 2nd ser., 3, no. 2 (1931): [230]–249, [230].

Puffinus lherminieri Lesson, 1839 Audubon’s Shearwater

Puffinus Lherminieri R. P. Lesson. “Description de treize oiseaux nouveaux, suivies de rectifications sur quelques espèces déjà publiées.” Revue zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne 2 (April 1839): 100–105, 102.

Puffinus persicus Hume, 1872 Persian Shearwater

Puffinus Persicus A. O. H. [A. O. Hume]. “Novelties – Puffinus Persicus.” Stray Feathers 1, no. 1 (1872): 5–7, 5.

Puffinus bailloni Bonaparte, 1856 Tropical Shearwater

[Puffinus] bailloni Ch. Bonaparte. “Espèces nouvelles d’oiseaux d’Asie et d’Amérique, et tableaux paralléliquesdes pélagiens ou Gaviæ.” Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences 42, no. 17 (1856): 764–776, 769.

Puffinus baroli (Bonaparte, 1856) Barolo Shearwater

[Puffinus] barolii Ch. Bonaparte. “Espèces nouvelles d’oiseaux d’Asie et d’Amérique, et tableaux paralléliquesdes pélagiens ou Gaviæ.” Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences 42, no. 17 (1856): 764–776, 769.

[Puffinus] baroli Carolo Luciano Bonaparte [Charles Lucien Bonaparte]. Conspectus generum avium. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: E. J. Brill, 1857, sig. 26: 204. (Collated and republished as Conspectus generum avium. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: E. J. Brill, 1857, 2:204.)

Puffinus boydi Mathews, 1912 Boyd’s Shearwater

Puffinus lherminieri boydi Gregory M. Mathews. The Birds of Australia. London: Witherby, 1912, 2, pt. 1:70. (Collated and republished in The Birds of Australia. London: Witherby, 1913, 2:70.)

Puffinus assimilis boydi H. F. Witherby. “Little Shearwaters.” British Birds 9, no. 8 (1916): 201–203, 202.

Puffinus boydi Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and Sound Approach. Petrels Night and Day: A Sound Approach Guide. Poole: The Sound Approach, 2008. (Not seen.)

Bulweria Bonaparte, 1843

Bulweria Carlo L. Bonaparte [Charles L. Bonaparte]. “Catalogo metodico degli uccelli Europei [Part 5].” Nuovi annali delle scienze naturali 8 (“December 1842” [January 1843]): [425]–432, 426.

Bulweria bulwerii (Jardine and Selby, 1828) Bulwer’s Petrel

Procellaria Bulwerii William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby. Illustrations of Ornithology. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1828, pt. 4: pl. 65. (Collated and republished in Illustrations of Ornithology. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1830, 2: pl. 65, p. [11].

T[halassidroma (Bulweria)] bulweri. Carlo L. Bonaparte [Charles L. Bonaparte]. “Catalogo metodico degli uccelli Europei [Part 5].” Nuovi annali delle scienze naturali 8 (“December 1842” [January 1843]): [425]–432, 426.

Bulweria Bulwerii S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer and R. Ridgway. The Water Birds of North America. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, vol. 8. Boston: Little, Brown, 1884, 2:398.

Bulweria fallax Jouanin, 1955 Jouanin’s Petrel

Bulweria fallax C. Jouanin. “Une nouvelle espèce de Procellariidea.” L’Oiseaux 25 (1955): 155–161, 158. (Not seen.)