Classification

Original description

Citation:
  Lesson, RP 1839

Reference:
   Rev. Zool. Soc. Cuvierienne 2 p.102

Protonym:
  Pufflnus Lherminieri

Type locality:
  Antilles; Saint Barthélemy, Guadeloupe, West Indies (Olson, 2013)

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19515#page/110/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  FFABB0DF113D740E

Avibase ID:
  avibase-FFABB0DF

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/FFABB0DF

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 174561

Geographic range:

• Puffinus lherminieri: breeds Elbow Cay (east of central Abaco, northern Bahamas), Long Cay (Exumas, east-central Bahamas), off northern Cuba, east of Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles (Caribbean Sea); Crab Cay (Providencia Islands, east of Nicaragua); Tiger Cay (Bocos del Toro Archipelago, Caribbean northwestern Panama); islas Los Roques, Orchila, and Los Hermanos (north of central Venezuela); and islets of Fernando de Noronha (east of northern Brazil); non-breeders range to Gulf Stream north to New England (western North Atlantic) and Gulf of Mexico
• Puffinus lherminieri lherminieri: breeds West Indies; formerly Bermuda
• Puffinus lherminieri loyemilleri: islets in southwestern Caribbean
• Puffinus bailloni: breeds tropical Indian Ocean in Malagasy region and tropical Pacific Ocean from Vanuatu through Marquesas, and Gambier and Austral islands (eastern Polynesia)
• Puffinus bailloni bailloni: Mascarene Islands
• Puffinus bailloni [dichrous or polynesiae]: islands throughout central Pacific (Samoa to Marquesas Islands)
• Puffinus bailloni [nicolae or colstoni]: northwestern Indian Ocean (Aldabra to Seychelles and Maldives)
• Puffinus bailloni gunax: breeds Banks Islands (northern Vanuatu)
• Puffinus subalaris: breeds Galapagos
• Puffinus persicus: breeds Khuriya Muriya Islands (south of Oman), Socotra, and Moheli (=Mwali, Comoros); non-breeders range Arabian Sea to Persian Gulf, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, Comoros (southwestern Indian Ocean), and western coast of India
• Puffinus persicus persicus: breeds and ranges Arabian Sea and adjacent waters
• Puffinus persicus temptator: Mohéli Island (Comoros)
• Puffinus bannermani: breeds Bonin and Volcano islands (off Japan)
• Puffinus heinrothi: presumably breeds montane Bougainville, Kolombangara, and Rendova (northern and west-central Solomon Islands); non-breeders range to Flores, Molucca seas, and Bismarck Archipelago
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