Oceanites is a genus of seabird in the austral storm petrel family. The genus name refers to the mythical Oceanids, the three thousand daughters of Tethys.[2]
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Genus Oceanites – Keyserling & Blasius, 1840 – four species
| Common name |
Scientific name and subspecies |
Range |
Size and ecology |
IUCN status and estimated population |
| Wilson's storm petrel
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Oceanites oceanicus
(Kuhl, 1820) |
South Shetland Islands
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LC
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| Elliot's storm petrel
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Oceanites gracilis
(Elliot, 1859) |
Galápagos Islands, Peru and Chile
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LC
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| Pincoya storm petrel
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Oceanites pincoyae
(Harrison et al., 2013) |
Chiloé Island (Reloncavi Sound and the Chacao Channel), Chile
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LC
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| Andean storm petrel
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Oceanites barrosi
(Heraldo V. Norambuena, Rodrigo Barros, Álvaro Jaramillo, Fernando Medrano, Chris Gaskin, Tania King, Karen Baird, Cristián E. Hernádez., 2024) |
Chile |
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