Fluttering Shearwater Puffinus gavia Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (20)
- Monotypic
Guy M. Kirwan, Carles Carboneras, and Francesc Jutglar
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Catalan | baldriga inquieta |
| Czech | buřňák třepetavý |
| Dutch | Vlinderpijlstormvogel |
| English | Fluttering Shearwater |
| English (United States) | Fluttering Shearwater |
| French | Puffin volage |
| French (France) | Puffin volage |
| German | Flattersturmtaucher |
| Icelandic | Brimskrofa |
| Japanese | ミナミミズナギドリ |
| Norwegian | flagrelire |
| Polish | burzyk nowozelandzki |
| Russian | Буроспинный буревестник |
| Serbian | Novozelandski zovoj |
| Slovak | víchrovník trepotavý |
| Spanish | Pardela Gavia |
| Spanish (Spain) | Pardela gavia |
| Swedish | nyazeelandlira |
| Turkish | Dalgıç Yelkovan |
| Ukrainian | Буревісник австралійський |
Puffinus gavia (Forster, 1844)
PROTONYM:
Procellaria gavia
Forster, 1844. Descriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto, collegit, observavit et delineavit (etc.), p.148.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- PUFFINUS
- puffinus
- GAVIA
- gavia
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Fluttering Shearwater
