Puffinus pacificoides Olson, 1975

St. Helena shearwater

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: c. 12,000 BC

Distribution

St. Helena

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Holotype: USNM 175963

Type locality: "Pleistocene deposits of aeolian calcareous sand near Sugarloaf Hill (Site 1), St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean"

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Olson, Storrs L. (1975). Paleornithology of St Helena Island, south Atlantic Ocean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 23: 1-49.

Other references:

Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/20399/puffinus-pacificoides

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