Boyd's shearwater

Boyd's shearwater
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Procellariidae
Genus:	Puffinus
Species:	P. boydi
Binomial name
Puffinus boydi Mathews, 1912
Synonyms
P. assimilis boydi P. lherminieri boydi P. baroli boydi P. parvus

Boyd's shearwater (Puffinus boydi), also known as the Cape Verde little shearwater, is a small shearwater which breeds in the Cape Verde archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean some 570 km off the coast of West Africa. The epithet commemorates British ornithologist Arnold Boyd.

Taxonomy

Boyd's shearwater is sometimes considered a subspecies of either the little shearwater, Audubon's shearwater or Macaronesian shearwater. It has also been shown to be synonymous with the extinct Puffinus parvus Shufeldt of Bermuda.

References

• "Cape Verde Little Shearwater". Avibase. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
• Olson, Storrs L. (2010). "Stasis and turnover in small shearwaters on Bermuda over the last 400 000 years (Aves: Procellariidae: Puffinus lherminieri group)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 99 (4): 699–707. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01393.x.