Oceanites oceanicus

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Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, pelagic waters • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: High

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,072 meters (0 to -19,921 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats : 10.1 Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)

Biology

Reproduction

• Clutch Size: 1

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001.

Similar Species

Leach's Storm-Petrel, Band-Rumped Storm-Petrel

Members of the genus Oceanites

There are approximately 9 species in this genus:

O. gracilis (White-Vented Storm-Petrel) · O. gracilis galapagoensis (Eliot's Storm Petrel) · O. gracilis gracilis (White-Vented Storm-Petrel) · O. maorianus (New Zealand Storm-Petrel) · O. oceanicus (Australian Yellow-Webbed Storm-Petrel) · O. oceanicus chilensis (Wilson's Storm Petrel) · O. oceanicus exasperatus (Antarctic Storm-Petrel) · O. oceanicus oceanicus (Subantarctic Wilson's Storm-Petrel) · O. zaloscarthmus

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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 09, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 20 providers.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 09, 2007:

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean
• Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• New Brunswick Museum, NBM birds
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data, Pangaea
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3851990
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174652
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13852119
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174650
• IUCN ID: 49715
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNDC01010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 5481

Footnotes

1. Mean = -1,151.770 meters (-3,778.773 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,529.530 based on 18,037 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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