Pachyptila turtur

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

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 Disturbance: High

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,226 meters (0 to -17,146 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Ecology: This marine species apparently occurs mainly offshore, but may move inshore during stormy weather. Its diet is comprised mostly of crustaceans (especially krill), but occaisionally includes some fish and squid. It feeds mainly by surface-seizing and dipping, but can also catch prey by surface-plunging or pattering. It often assocaites with other prions and storm-petrels when feeding around boats . The breeding season starts in September and the species is highly colonial , creating burrows in coastal sites on oceanic islands1.

[2].

List of Habitats :

•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.3     Grassland - Subantarctic   
  
•     6     Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks)   
  
•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.1     Marine Neritic - Pelagic   
  
•     9.2     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs   
  
•     9.3     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Loose Rock/pebble/gravel   
  
•     9.4     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Sandy   
  
•     9.5     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Sandy-Mud   
  
•     9.7     Marine Neritic - Macroalgal/Kelp   
  
•     9.9     Marine Neritic - Seagrass (Submerged)   
  
•     10     Marine Oceanic   
  
•     10.1     Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)   
  
•     10.2     Marine Oceanic - Mesopelagic (200-1000m)   
  
•     13     Marine Coastal/Supratidal   
  
•     13.1     Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Sea Cliffs and Rocky Offshore Islands   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Pachyptila turtur (Kuhl, 1820)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Oliver, James A. Banana bonanza. Animal Kingdom 58 (3): 66–71., 1955.

Last scrutiny: 13-Jun-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Pachyptila

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. belcheri (Slender-Billed Prion) · P. crassirostris (Thick-Billed Prion) · P. crassirostris crassirostris (Thick-Billed Prion) · P. desolata (Antarctic Prion) · P. desolata desolata (Antarctic Prion) · P. forsteri (Broad-Billed Prion) · P. salvini (Medium-Billed Prion) · P. salvini salvini (Medium-Billed Prion) · P. turtur (Fairy Prion) · P. vittata (Broad-Billed Prion)

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Further Reading

• Advances in herpetology and evolutionary biology: essays in honor of Ernest E. Williams / Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1983. url p. 615, p. 724.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 83.
• Comparative physiology of temperature regulation. Editors: John P. Hannon [and] Eleanor Viereck. Fort Wainwright, Alaska, Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory, 1962. url p. 318.
• Oceanic birds of South America: a study of species of the related coasts and seas, including the American quadrant of Antarctica, based upon the Brewster-Sanford collection in the American Museum of Natural History / by Robert Cushman Murphy; illustrated from paintings by Francis L. Jaques; photographs, maps, and other drawings. I 1936 New York: Macmillan Co.: c1936. url fig. 59, p. 610, p. 613, p. 614, p. 631, p. 632, p. xi.
• Parental care and its evolution in birds. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1952. url p. 180.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 195, p. 198, p. 64.
• Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 49.
• The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1901- url p. 73.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Pachyptila turtur. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.
• 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 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: SEAMAP - marine mammals, birds and turtles
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9029
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-723297
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2480765
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174602
• IUCN ID: 229376
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 152445

Footnotes

1. Mean = -2,970.680 meters (-9,746.325 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,485.540 based on 1,464 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2009. Pachyptila turtur. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 03 February 2012. [back]

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