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Ardenna grisea (sooty shearwater)

Reptilia - Procellariidae

Taxonomy
Procellaria grisea was named by Gmelin (1789). It is extant.

It was recombined as Puffinus (Puffinus) griseus by Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956); it was recombined as Ardenna grisea by Clements et al. (2017); it was recombined as Puffinus griseus by Miller and DeMay (1942), Bourne (1967), Olson (1975), Guthrie (1992), Steadman (1994), Tennyson and Millener (1994), Worthy (1998), Worthy and Grant-Mackie (2003), Tennyson and Scofield (2013), Watanabe et al. (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1789Procellaria grisea Gmelin
1940Puffinus (Puffinus) griseus Wetmore p. 8
1942Puffinus griseus Miller and DeMay p. 73
1956Puffinus (Puffinus) griseus Wetmore p. 11
1967Puffinus griseus Bourne p. 3
1975Puffinus griseus Olson p. 20
1992Puffinus griseus Guthrie p. 320
1994Puffinus griseus Steadman p. 220
1994Puffinus griseus Tennyson and Millener
1998Puffinus griseus Worthy p. 95
2003Puffinus griseus Worthy and Grant-Mackie p. 445
2013Puffinus griseus Tennyson and Scofield
2017Ardenna grisea Clements et al.
2020Puffinus griseus Watanabe et al. p. 691 figs. 10A-C,H,I,N,W,X,F'

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Aequornithes
—Feraequornithes
superorderProcellariimorphae
—Procellariiformes(Fürbringer 1888)
familyProcellariidaeVigors 1825
genusArdennaReichenbach 1853
speciesgrisea(Gmelin 1789)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Ardenna grisea Gmelin 1789 [sooty shearwater]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2017-04-17 10:40:15
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:40:15
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Benton 1983, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Piacenzian to the top of the Holocene or 3.60000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (35 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.58Chile Puffinus griseus (221049)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117USA (California) Puffinus griseus (176094 176101)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Japan (Aomori) Puffinus griseus (101897)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (California) Puffinus griseus (20639)
Rancholabrean (glacial)0.21 - 0.014USA (California) Puffinus griseus (20624)
Rancholabrean - Holocene0.21 - 0.0USA (California) Puffinus griseus (84904)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117New Zealand (North Otago) Puffinus griseus (87789)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Puffinus griseus (20628)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Saint Helena Puffinus griseus (176071)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Spain Puffinus griseus (122309)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117New Zealand (South Island) Puffinus griseus (87810 87814)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Puffinus griseus (59063 120827 120828 125234 125235 125236 176102)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Japan (Aomori) Puffinus griseus (101898 195045 210642)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0New Zealand Puffinus griseus (100554 194616 194618 194619 195150 198081)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Chile Puffinus griseus (215543)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0French Southern Territories Puffinus griseus (194621)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (California) Puffinus griseus (194880)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Australia (New South Wales) Ardenna grisea (235090)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Australia (Macquarie Island) Puffinus griseus (194608)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0American Samoa Puffinus griseus (193800)