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Audubon's shearwater
Species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Audubon's shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri) is a common tropical seabird in the petrel family. Sometimes known as the dusky-backed shearwater,[2] the specific epithet honours the French naturalist Félix Louis L'Herminier.
Audubon's shearwater | |
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off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Procellariiformes |
Family: | Procellariidae |
Genus: | Puffinus |
Species: | P. lherminieri |
Binomial name | |
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson, 1839 | |
Subspecies | |
About 10, see text | |
Synonyms | |
Puffinus assimilis lherminieri Lesson, 1839 |
Certain populations are known variously as Baillon's shearwater, tropical shearwater, Bannerman's shearwater, Mascarene shearwater and Persian shearwater; some of these are considered distinct species by various authors.[2] If they are all placed in P. lherminieri, the North Atlantic little shearwater (otherwise often separated as P. baroli) is generally included here too. Thus, these small shearwaters form a cryptic species complex.