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Procellariiformes
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Procellariiformes is an order o seabirds that comprises fower faimilies: the albatrosses, petrels an shearwaters, storm petrels, an divin petrels. Umwhile cried Tubinares an still cried tubenoses in Inglis, thay are eften referred tae collectively as the petrels, a term that haes been applied tae aw Procellariiformes,[2] or mair commonly aw the faimilies except the albatrosses.[3] Thay are almaist exclusively pelagic (feedin in the open ocean), an hae a cosmopolitan distribution athort the warld's oceans, wi the heichest diversity bein aroond New Zealand.
Quick Facts Scientific classification, Faimilies ...
Procellariiformes | |
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Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Aves |
Clade: | Austrodyptornithes |
Order: | Procellariiformes Fürbringer, 1888[1] |
Faimilies | |
†Diomedeoididae | |
Diversity | |
4 Extant Faimilies, 23 Genera, 125 Speshies |
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