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Ardenna pacifica (wedge-tailed shearwater)
Taxonomy
Procellaria pacifica was named by Gmelin (1789). It is extant.
It was recombined as Puffinus pacificus by Olson and James (1982), Steadman et al. (1990), Steadman and Pahlavan (1992), Steadman (1994), Mourer-Chauviré et al. (1999) and Worthy et al. (2015); it was recombined as Ardenna pacifica by Clements et al. (2017), Rigal et al. (2018) and Worthy and Burley (2019).
It was recombined as Puffinus pacificus by Olson and James (1982), Steadman et al. (1990), Steadman and Pahlavan (1992), Steadman (1994), Mourer-Chauviré et al. (1999) and Worthy et al. (2015); it was recombined as Ardenna pacifica by Clements et al. (2017), Rigal et al. (2018) and Worthy and Burley (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1789 | Procellaria pacifica Gmelin |
| 1982 | Puffinus pacificus Olson and James |
| 1990 | Puffinus pacificus Steadman et al. p. 127 |
| 1992 | Puffinus pacificus Steadman and Pahlavan p. 458 |
| 1994 | Puffinus pacificus Steadman p. 217 |
| 1999 | Puffinus pacificus Mourer-Chauviré et al. p. 4 |
| 2015 | Puffinus pacificus Worthy et al. p. 231 |
| 2017 | Ardenna pacifica Clements et al. |
| 2018 | Ardenna pacifica Rigal et al. p. 19 |
| 2019 | Ardenna pacifica Worthy and Burley |
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Ardenna pacifica Gmelin 1789 [wedge-tailed shearwater]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (29 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holocene | French Polynesia | Ardenna pacifica (198007 198009 198010 198017 198025 198026) Puffinus pacificus (194673 194675) | |
| Holocene | Tonga | Puffinus pacificus (194751 194752) | |
| Holocene | American Samoa | Puffinus pacificus (193800) | |
| Holocene | Solomon Islands | Puffinus pacificus (209064 209099) | |
| Holocene | USA (Hawaii) | Puffinus pacificus (110073 110074) | |
| Holocene | Reunion | Puffinus pacificus (193992 193993 193994 193995 193996 193997) | |
| Holocene | Pitcairn | Puffinus pacificus (193786 193792) | |
| Holocene | Mauritius | Puffinus pacificus (194166) | |
| Holocene | Vanuatu (Efate) | Puffinus pacificus (185434) | |
| Holocene | Tonga (Vava'u) | Ardenna pacifica (208862 208863 208865) | |
| Holocene | French Polynesia (Society Islands) | Puffinus pacificus (215325) |