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Puffinus puffinus (Manx shearwater)

Reptilia - Procellariidae

Taxonomy
Procellaria puffinus was named by Brunnich (1764). It is extant. It is the type species of Puffinus.

It was recombined as Puffinus (Puffinus) puffinus by Wetmore (1940) and Wetmore (1956); it was recombined as Puffinus puffinus by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Wetmore (1931), Olson and James (1982), Weesie (1988), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Olson (2004), Clements et al. (2017) and Watanabe et al. (2020).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. nativitatus

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1764Procellaria puffinus Brunnich
1902Puffinus puffinus Hay p. 526
1916Puffinus mcgalli Shufeldt
1930Puffinus puffinus Hay p. 288
1931Puffinus puffinus Wetmore p. 12
1933Puffinus mcgalli Lambrecht p. 269
1940Puffinus (Puffinus) puffinus Wetmore p. 9
1956Puffinus (Puffinus) puffinus Wetmore p. 11
1962Puffinus mcgalli Wetmore p. 16
1982Puffinus puffinus Olson and James p. 32
1988Puffinus puffinus Weesie p. 11 figs. Pl 1, fig 1
2001Puffinus puffinus Olson and Rasmussen p. 259
2004Puffinus puffinus Olson p. 578
2017Puffinus puffinus Clements et al.
2020Puffinus puffinus Watanabe et al. p. 8

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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
genusPuffinusBrisson 1760
speciespuffinus(Brunnich 1764)

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.

Puffinus puffinus Brunnich 1764 [Manx shearwater]
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Invalid names: Puffinus mcgalli Shufeldt 1916 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Entire body: yeso
Adult length: 10 to < 100o
Adult width: 1.0 to < 10o
Adult height: 1.0 to < 10o
Architecture: compact or denseo
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partso
Grouping: solitaryo
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparouso
Dispersal: direct/internalo
Dispersal 2: mobileo
Created: 2017-04-17 10:40:15
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:40:15
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (16 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6USA (North Carolina) Puffinus puffinus (52582)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Japan (Chiba) Puffinus puffinus (207858)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Japan (Chiba) Puffinus puffinus (56359)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (Wales) Puffinus puffinus (216961)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Gibraltar Puffinus puffinus (90037 122805)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Portugal Puffinus puffinus (197768)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Italy Puffinus puffinus (122311 216954 216955)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Norway Puffinus puffinus (73689)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Cyprus Puffinus puffinus (216417)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Puffinus puffinus (74292)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Greece (Peloponnesus) Puffinus puffinus (184245)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Spain Puffinus puffinus (122309)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Greece (Crete) Puffinus puffinus (192961)