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Oceanodroma
Oceanodroma tristrami
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Oceanodroma

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Oceanodroma is a genus of storm-petrels. The genus currently comprises 15 species. One species, the Guadalupe Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma macrodactyla), is extinct.

In 2010 the IOC added the Cape Verde Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma jabejabe) to their list of accepted species (AS) splits, following Bolton et al. 2007. This species was split from the Madeiran Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma castro).

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