Fregetta

Fregetta is a seabird genus in the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae.

Fregetta
White-bellied storm petrel at Lord Howe Island
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Oceanitidae
Genus:	Fregetta Bonaparte, 1855
Type species
Thalasssidroma leucogaster (white-bellied storm petrel) Gould, 1844
Species
Fregetta grallaria Fregetta lineata Fregetta maoriana Fregetta tropica
Synonyms
Cymodroma Ridgway, 1884 Pealea Ridgway, 1886 Fregettornis Mathews, 1912 Fregodroma Mathews, 1937 Fregolla Mathews, 1937 Fregandria Mathews, 1938 nomen novum for Fregolla Mathews, 1937

Taxonomy

The genus Fregetta was introduced in 1855 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. He specified the type species as Thalasssidroma leucogaster which is now considered as a subspecies of the white-bellied storm petrel.^[1][2]

The genus contains four species:^[3]

• White-bellied storm petrel, Fregetta grallaria
• Black-bellied storm petrel, Fregetta tropica
• New Zealand storm petrel, Fregetta maoriana – formerly placed in Oceanites
• New Caledonian storm petrel, Fregetta lineata – revived as a distinct species in 2022^[4]