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Pelecanoides (diving-petrel)

Reptilia - Procellariidae

Taxonomy
Pelecanoides was named by Lacépède (1799) [Sepkoski's age data: T Plio R Sepkoski's reference number: 1066]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Procellariiformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Pelecanoididae by Olson (1985), Carroll (1988), Scofield et al. (2006) and Worthy et al. (2007); and to Procellariidae by Worthy (1997), Worthy and Grant-Mackie (2003) and Clements et al. (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1799Pelecanoides Lacépède
1985Pelecanoides Olson p. 212
1988Pelecanoides Carroll
1997Pelecanoides Worthy p. 101
2002Pelecanoides Sepkoski
2003Pelecanoides Worthy and Grant-Mackie p. 444
2006Pelecanoides Scofield et al. p. 66
2007Pelecanoides Worthy et al. p. 8
2017Pelecanoides Clements et al.

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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
genusPelecanoidesLacépède 1799

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.

G. Pelecanoides Lacépède 1799 [diving-petrel]
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Pelecanoides georgicus Murphy and Harper 1916 [South Georgia diving-petrel]
Pelecanoides miokuaka Worthy et al. 2007
Pelecanoides urinatrix Gmelin 1789 [common diving-petrel]
Pelecanoides whenuahouensis Fischer et al. 2018 [Whenua Hou diving-petrel]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available