Puffinus

The Puffinus gathers birds sailor of the family of the Procellariidae and named, as for other kind, Puffin.

Etymology

The term Puffinus is borrowed from the English puffin since the 14th century at least, it is of dubious origin but could derive from to puff* because of the inflated aspect which this bird would have. Today, the term exclusively indicates in English the species of the kind Fratercula , of the Macareux, which can generate a certain confusion. Moreover the taxonomy of this group evolved/moved much.

List species

According to ITIS:

Puffinus assimilis Gould, 1838
Puffinus auricularis C.H. Townsend, 1890
Puffinus bulleri Salvin, 1888
Puffinus carneipes Gould, 1844
Puffinus creatopus Coues, 1864
Puffinus gavia (J.R. Forster, 1844)
Puffinus climbed (O' Reilly, 1818)
Puffinus griseus (Gmelin, 1789)
Puffinus huttoni Mathews, 1912
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson, 1839
Puffinus mauretanicus Lowe, 1921
Puffinus nativitatis Streets, 1877
Puffinus opisthomelas Coues, 1864
Puffinus pacificus (Gmelin, 1789)
Puffinus puffinus (Brunnich, 1764)
Puffinus tenuirostris (Temminck, 1836)
Puffinus yelkouan (Acerbi, 1827)

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