WoRMS taxon details

Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly, 1818)

137201  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137201)

accepted
Species
marine, terrestrial
(of Procellaria gravis O'Reilly, 1818) O'Reilly, B. (1818). Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis's strait, during the summer of 1817. <em>Craddock and Joy.</em> 293pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30184
page(s): 140-141 [details]   
Distribution North America; range extends from Greenland, Iceland to Tristan da Cunha Is. in the southern Atlantic, where the species breeds  
Distribution North America; range extends from Greenland, Iceland to Tristan da Cunha Is. in the southern Atlantic, where the species breeds [details]
WoRMS (2024). Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly, 1818). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137201 on 2024-04-24
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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original description  (of Procellaria gravis O'Reilly, 1818) O'Reilly, B. (1818). Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis's strait, during the summer of 1817. <em>Craddock and Joy.</em> 293pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30184
page(s): 140-141 [details]   

context source (Bermuda) Wingate, D. B. (1973). A Checklist and Guide to the Birds of Bermuda. David B. Wingate, Hamilton, Bermuda. [details]   

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p. [details]   

additional source Robbins, C. S. (1983). Golden field Guide to Birds of North America. Golden press. 360p. [details]   

additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]   

additional source Peterson, R.T.; Peterson, V.M. (2002). A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. <em>Fifth Edition.</em> Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p. [details]   

additional source Squires, H. J. (1990). Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 221: 532 p., available online at http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/library/116743.pdf [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Vanner, M. (2003). The encyclopedia of North American birds. <em>Paragon Publishing.</em> 1-383. [details]   

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]   

additional source Gallardo, J. C.; Macías, V.; Velarde, E. (2009). Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>In: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.</em> Pp. 1321–1342. [details]   

additional source Phillips, L.M., R.I. Leihy & S.L. Chown. (2022). Improving species‐based area protection in Antarctica. <em>Conservation Biology.</em> 36(4): e13885.Aug 2022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13885 [details]   

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]   

additional source Cattrijsse, A.; Vincx, M. (2001). Biodiversity of the benthos and the avifauna of the Belgian coastal waters: summary of data collected between 1970 and 1998. Sustainable Management of the North Sea. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs: Brussel, Belgium. 48 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Dimensions Length: 19" (48 cm); Wingspan: 44" (112 cm) [details]

Distribution North America; range extends from Greenland, Iceland to Tristan da Cunha Is. in the southern Atlantic, where the species breeds [details]

Reproduction Breeds on the Tristan da Cunha islands in the South Atlantic from November to April and then migrates north ranging over the whole North Atlantic in summer. [details]
LanguageName 
Danish storskråpe  [details]
Dutch grote pijlstormvogel  [details]
English greater shearwatergreat shearwater  [details]
French puffin majeur  [details]
German großer Sturmtaucher  [details]
Hebrew יסעור לבן-זנב  [details]
Lithuanian didžioji audronaša  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Καπελόμυχος  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål storlire  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk storlire  [details]
Polish burzyk wielki  [details]
Russian большой пестробрюхий буревестник  [details]
Slovenian veliki viharnik  [details]
Spanish pardela capirotada  [details]
Swedish större lira  [details]
Turkish büyük yelkovan kuşu  [details]
Ukrainian Великий буревісник Буревісник великий  [details]
Welsh aderyn drycin mawr  [details]