Procellariiformes
| Procellariiformes | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Aves |
| Clade: | Austrodyptornithes |
| Order: | Procellariiformes Fürbringer, 1888[1] |
| Faimilies | |
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†Diomedeoididae | |
| Diversity | |
| 4 Extant Faimilies, 23 Genera, 125 Speshies | |
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.
References
[eedit | edit soorce]- ↑ Brands, Sheila (14 August 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification – Parker (1982)". Project: The Taxonomicon. Archived frae the original on 14 Juin 2010. Retrieved 12 Februar 2009. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help) - ↑ Warham, J. (1996). The Behaviour, Population, Biology and Physiology of the Petrels. London: Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-735415-8
- ↑ Brooke, 2004.
