Black-billed Shearwater
The division of living beings into systematics is a continuous subject of research. Different systematic classifications exist side by side and one after the other. The taxon treated here has become obsolete due to new research or is not part of the group systematics presented in the German-language Wikipedia.
The species, referred to in older literature as the black-billed shearwater ( Puffinus puffinus ), has been divided several times since the 1980s. At first there was a subdivision into the Atlantic-Mediterranean, North and South Pacific populations, and later also a subdivision of the same. In the meantime, most of the earlier subspecies are viewed as separate species, the entire complex as superspecies . This includes …
- Atlantic-Mediterranean species
- Atlantic Shearwater ( Puffinus puffinus ) - Northern Atlantic
- Mediterranean Shearwater ( Puffinus yelkouan ) - Eastern Mediterranean
- Balearic Shearwater ( Puffinus mauretanicus ) - Western Mediterranean ( Balearic Islands )
- North and Central Pacific species
- Black-tailed Shearwater ( Puffinus opisthomelas ) - Pacific coast of southern North and Central America
- Townsend Shearwater ( Puffinus auricularis ) - Pacific Coast of Central America
- Hawaiian Shearwaters ( Puffinus newelli ) - Central Pacific ( Hawaii and Rapa Iti )
- South Pacific species
- Fluttering shearwater ( Puffinus gavia ) - Australia and New Zealand
- Hutton Shearwaters ( Puffinus huttoni ) - Australia and New Zealand
With the scientific name Puffinus puffinus only the former nominate form , the Atlantic shearwater , is used today .
literature
- J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, AD Christie, E. de Juana (eds.): Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2014.
- Urs N. Glutz von Blotzheim , KM Bauer : Handbook of the birds of Central Europe. Volume 1: Gaviiformes - Phoenicopteriformes. AULA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1993/2001 (first edition 1966), ISBN 3-923527-00-4 .
- Hans-Günther Bauer, Einhard Bezzel, Wolfgang Fiedler (Hrsg.): The compendium of birds of Central Europe. Aula-Verlag, Wiebelsheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-89104-758-3 .
- Gerald S. Tuck, Hermann Heinzel: The sea birds of the world. Paul Parey Publishing House, Hamburg / Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-490-07818-7 .