Common Diving-petrel
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| Common Diving-Petrel | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Procellariiformes |
| Family: | Pelecanoididae |
| Genus: | Pelecanoides |
| Species: | P. urinatrix |
| Binomial name | |
| Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gmelin, 1789) |
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The Common Diving-Petrel ( Pelecanoides urinatrix),also known as the Smaller Diving-Petrel or simply the Diving-Petrel is a diving-petrel, one of four very similar auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans. It is native to South Africa and islands of the southern Indian Ocean, islands and islets off New Zealand and south-eastern Australian islands.
[edit] External links
- Pelecanoides urinatrix at Animal Diversity Web
- NZ Seabirds gallery
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