Little Shearwater - Puffinus assimilis

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Scientific Name Puffinus assimilis
Author Gould, 1838
Taxonomic Rank Species
Taxonomic # 174559
Common Names English: Little Shearwater
French: Petit Puffin
Taxonomic Parents Kingdom: Animalia
  Phylum: Chordata
    Subphylum: Vertebrata
      Class: Aves
        Order: Procellariiformes
          Family: Procellariidae
            Genus: Puffinus
Taxonomic Children Subspecies: Puffinus assimilis assimilis
Subspecies: Puffinus assimilis elegans
Subspecies: Puffinus assimilis haurakiensis
Subspecies: Puffinus assimilis kermadecensis
Subspecies: Puffinus assimilis tunneyi
Synonyms (since 1950)
Taxonomic data is courtesy of the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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ITIS#174559
StatusIUCN:LC
#records124
#datasets7
Years1895 - 2006
Latitudes-51.42 - 50.77
Longitudes-66.98 - 176.52