Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Vieillot, 1818)

Reference:
  Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat.(1817) p.422

Protonym:
  Procellaria leucorhoa

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  438405AAE820DE9C

Avibase ID:
  avibase-438405AA

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/438405AA

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 174628

Geographic range:

• Oceanodroma leucorhoa leucorhoa: breeds in the north Pacific, from northeastern Japan through the Kuril and Aleutian Islands to southeastern Alaska, south to central California (Farallon Islands); and in the north Atlantic from the northeastern USA (Massachusetts, Maine) and eastern Canada east to Iceland, the Faeroe Islands, northern Scotland, and northwestern Norway; very small population also breeding (since 1995) on Dyer and Dassen Islands (Western Cape, South Africa; still extant?), and unsuccessful nesting attempted on Chatham Islands, New Zealand. winters primarily in central and eastern Pacific, south to 27°S, and in the tropical Atlantic, especially in waters off West Africa, but south to northeastern Brazil and South Africa
• Oceanodroma leucorhoa chapmani: Coronados Islands and San Benito Islands (nw Mexico)
• Oceanodroma socorroensis: summer breeder on islets off Guadalupe I. (western Mexico); ranges in eastern Pacific north to southern California and south to ca 10º N
• Oceanodroma cheimomnestes: winter breeder on islets off Guadalupe I. (western Mexico); nonbreeding range poorly known, but apparently disperses south in eastern Pacific, to at least as far as the Galapagos Islands
• Oceanodroma monorhis: Breeds islands off Japan; disperses to n Indian Ocean
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