Procellariiformes (Albatrosses, Petrels, Shearwaters and Storm Petrels)
Family: Diomedeidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Phoebastria albatrus | (Pallas, 1769) | Short-tailed albatross | (rediscovered) | North Pacific | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Hydrobatidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Hydrobates macrodactylus | Bryant, 1887 | Guadelupe storm petrel | 1911 or August 1912 | Guadelupe, Mexico | Missing | Access |
Family: Oceanitidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Fregetta maoriana | Mathews, 1932 | New Zealand storm petrel | - | New Zealand | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Procellariidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Bulweria bifax | Olson, 1975 | Small St. Helena petrel, St. Helena Bulwer's petrel, Olson's petrel | >1502 AD? | St. Helena | Extinct | Access |
Pseudobulweria aterrima
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(Bonaparte, 1857) | Mascarene Petrel, Réunion (black) petrel, Reunion petrel | - | Réunion, Mascarene Islands | Rediscovered | Access |
Pseudobulweria becki | Murphy, 1928 | Beck's petrel | - | Pacific Ocean | Rediscovered | Access |
Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi | Gray, 1860 | Fiji petrel, MacGillivray's petrel | - | Fiji Islands | Rediscovered | Access |
Pseudobulweria rupinarum | Olson, 1975 | Large St. Helena petrel, Large Saint Helena petrel, St Helena gadfly petrel, Saint Helena gadfly petrel | Holocene | St. Helena | Extinct | Access |
Pseudobulweria sp. nov. ‘Mangareva’ | - | 1922 | Mangareva, Gambier Islands | Extinct | Access | |
Pseudobulweria/Pterodroma sp. nov. ‘Rodrigues’ | - | Bourne’s petrel | ? | Rodrigues | Extinct | Access |
Pterodroma cahow | Nichols & Mowbray, 1916 | Bermuda petrel, Cahow | - | Bermuda | Rediscovered | Access |
Pterodroma caribbaea
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Carte, 1866 | Jamaican petrel, Blue Mountain duck, Jamaican Blue Mountain duck | 1879/80 | Jamaica (nested on Dominica and Guadeloupe?) | Missing | Access |
Pterodroma cf. feae | - | Holocene | Hebrides, Scotland | Invalid | Access | |
Pterodroma imberi | Tennyson, Cooper & Shepherd, 2015 | Imbers' petrel |
Holocene (1800's?)
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Chatham, Pitt and Mangere Islands, Chatham Islands, New Zealand | Extinct | Access |
Pterodroma jugabilis | Olson & James, 1991 | Oahu petrel | Holocene | Hawaii and Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA | Extinct | Access |
Pterodroma kurodai | Harrison & Walker, 1978 | Aldabra gadfly petrel | Late Pleistocene | Aldabra, Seychelles | Extinct | Access |
Pterodroma madeira | Mathews, 1934 | Zino's petrel, Freira, Madeira petrel | - | Madeira, Portugal | Rediscovered | Access |
Pterodroma magentae | Giglioli & Salvadori, 1869 | Chatham Island taiko, Magenta petrel | - | Chatham Islands, New Zealand | Rediscovered | Access |
Pterodroma occulta | Imber & Tennyson, 2001 | Vanuatu petrel, Falla's petrel | - | Vanuatu | Rediscovered | Access |
Pterodroma sp. nov. ‘Canary Islands’ | - | Canary Islands petrel | ? | El Hierro, Canary Islands | Extinct or hypothetical? | Access |
Pterodroma sp. nov. ‘'Eua’ | - | Eua petrel | ? | 'Eua, Tonga | Extinct | Access |
Pterodroma sp. nov. ‘Henderson’ | - | Henderson Island petrel | ? | Henderson Island (=San Juan Bautista =Elizabeth Island), Pitcairn Group | Extinct | Access |
Pterodroma sp. nov. ‘Norfolk Island’ | - | Mount Pitt petrel, Norfolk Island petrel | 1790 | Norfolk Island, Australia | Extinct | Access |
Puffinus heinrothi | Reichenow, 1919 | Heinroth’s shearwater | - | Solomon Islands | Rediscovered | Access |
Puffinus holeae
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Walker, Wragg & Harrison, 1990 | Hole’s shearwater, Dune shearwater, Canarian shearwater | 3395 ± 30 yr BP | Fuerteventura (including Islet of Lobos) & Lanzarote, Canary Islands, North Africa | Extinct | Access |
Puffinus huttoni | Mathews, 1912 | Hutton's shearwater | - | New Zealand | Rediscovered | Access |
Puffinus newelli | Henshaw, 1900 | Newell's shearwater | - | Hawaiian Islands, USA & Rapa Island (=Rapa Iti), French Polynesia | Rediscovered | Access |
Puffinus olsoni | McMinn, Jaume & Alcover, 1990 | Lava shearwater, Olson's shearwater | 1265 ± 25 years BP | Fuerteventura, Lanzarote & Lobos Islet, Canary Islands | Extinct | Access |
Puffinus pacificoides | Olson, 1975 | St. Helena shearwater | c. 12,000 BC | St. Helena | Extinct | Access |
Puffinus parvus | Shufeldt, 1916 | ? | Bermuda | Extinct | Access | |
Puffinus spelaeus | Holdaway & Worthy, 1994 | Scarlett’s shearwater | c.1400 AD | South Island, New Zealand | Extinct | Access |
Puffinus sp. nov. ‘'Eua’ | - | 'Eua Shearwater | ? | 'Eua, Tonga | Extinct | Access |
Puffinus sp. nov. 'Madagascar' | - | Holocene? | Madagascar (southeastern) | Extinct if valid | Access | |
Puffinus sp. nov. ‘Minorca’ | - | Menorcan shearwater | ? | Minorca, Balearic Islands | Extinct | Access |
PROCELLARIIDAE gen. et. sp. indet. | - | ? | Ibiza or Formentera | Extinct if valid | Access | |
PROCELLARIIDAE sp. nov. 'Rapa Nui' | - | ? | Rapa Nui (=Easter Island) | Extinct | Access |