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Pseudobulweria - Wikipedia

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Pseudobulweria

Tahiti petrel (Pseudobulweria rostrata)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Procellariidae
Genus:	Pseudobulweria Mathews, 1936
Type species
Thalassidroma macgillivrayi (Fiji petrel) Gray, 1860
Diversity
four extant species, one extinct after 1500

Pseudobulweria is a genus of seabirds in the family Procellariidae. They have long been retained with the gadfly petrel genus Pterodroma despite morphological differences. Mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b sequence analysis has confirmed the split out of Pterodroma and places the genus closer to shearwaters. They thus represent either a plesiomorphic lineage still sharing some traits of the ancestral Procellariidae with the gadfly petrels, or convergent evolution of a shearwater to the ecological niche of gadfly petrels.^[1]

They are a poorly known and highly endangered group: 3 of the 4 extant species are listed by the IUCN as critically endangered. The Tahiti petrel (Pseudobulweria rostrata) is the most familiar and the best studied.

Description and ecology

They are generally largish darkish petrels, but may have white undersides. They are long-winged and fly about with rather leisurely wingbeats and soar a lot. Though they are attracted by chum, Pseudobulweria petrels are not particularly prone to following ships. They often approach floating prey from downwind, picking it up without landing on the water or during a brief landing in which the wings are kept raised.^[2]^[3]

The breeding range of Pseudobulweria is limited essentially by the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, and possibly always has been. Non-breeding birds range more widely, but in general they are rarely met with in the Northern Hemisphere or outside tropical regions. Today, the genus inhabits only the Indo-Pacific region; formerly it was also found in the Atlantic. Three of the four extant Pseudobulweria species are listed as critically endangered. All three of these species are poorly known: the Fiji petrel (P. macgillivrayi), Beck's petrel (P. becki) and the Mascarene petrel (P. aterrima) are among the least well known seabird species on Earth, with the breeding colonies of all three species still a matter of speculation and awaiting confirmation. Both the former species have been seen very seldom since their discovery by science, although the Mascarene petrel is encountered on Réunion island as a result of light-induced fallout. Only the Tahiti petrel (P. rostrata) is more common across the Pacific Ocean, but it is still listed as near threatened. One species of Pseudobulweria has gone extinct in recent history; it has been described from subfossil remains found on Saint Helena.^[2]^[4]

Taxonomy

The genus Pseudobulweria was introduced in 1936 by the Australian born ornithologist Gregory Mathews with the Fiji petrel as the type species. Mathews suggested that petrels in his new genus Pseudobulweria had longer wings than those in Bulweria: "In Bulweria the wing measurement is less than twice the tail measurement; in Pseudobulweria the wing measurement is more than twice that of the tail."^[5]

Species

The genus contains five species of which one is now extinct.^[6]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi	Fiji petrel	Gau Island, Fiji
Pseudobulweria rostrata	Tahiti petrel	American Samoa, Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Mexico, New Caledonia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and possibly the Cook Islands.
Pseudobulweria becki	Beck's petrel	Melanesia
Pseudobulweria aterrima	Mascarene petrel	Réunion
Pseudobulweria rupinarum	Saint Helena petrel	Saint Helena (became extinct in the early 16th century)

References

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^ Bretagnolle, Vincent; Attié, Carole & Pasquet, Eric (1998). "Cytochrome-B evidence for validity and phylogenetic relationships of Pseudobulweria and Bulweria (Procellariidae)" (PDF). Auk. 115 (1): 188–195. doi:10.2307/4089123. JSTOR 4089123.
^ ^a ^b Brooke, Michael (2004): Albatrosses and Petrels across the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York. ISBN 0-19-850125-0
^ Shirihai, Hadoram; Pym, Tony; Kretzschmar, Jörg; Moce, Kolinio; Taukei, Amania; Watling, Dick (2009). "First observations of Fiji Petrel Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi at sea: off Gau Island, Fiji, in May 2009" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 129 (3): 129–148.
^ International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) (2009): 2009 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland.
^ Mathews, Gregory M. (1936). "A note on the Black Fiji petrel". Ibis. 78 (2): 309. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1936.tb03375.x.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Petrels, albatrosses". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 January 2022.

Genera of penguins, petrels, and albatrosses and their extinct allies

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Neognathae
Clade: Austrodyptornithes

Sphenisciformes

incertae sedis

†Arthrodytes
†Aprosdokitos
†Kaiika
†Kumimanu
†Kupoupou
†Muriwaimanu
†Nucleornis
†Orthopteryx
†Pakudyptes
†Petradyptes
†Sequiwaimanu
†Tonniornis
†Waimanu
†Wimanornis

Spheniscidae

†Palaeospheniscinae	Eretiscus Palaeospheniscus
†Paraptenodytinae	Arthrodytes Paraptenodytes
†"Palaeeudyptinae"	Anthropodyptes Anthropornis Archaeospheniscus Delphinornis Marambiornis Mesetaornis Pachydyptes Palaeeudyptes Platydyptes
Spheniscinae	Aptenodytes Eudyptes Eudyptula †Madrynornis Megadyptes Pygoscelis Spheniscus

Procellariiformes

incertae sedis	†Kievornis †Lonchodytes? †Makahala
†Diomedeoididae	Diomedeoides Rupelornis
†Marinavidae	Marinavis
†Tytthostonychidae	Tytthostonyx
Diomedeidae	†Aldiomedes †Diomedavus Diomedea †Murunkus †Notoleptos Phoebastria Phoebetria †Plotornis Thalassarche †Tydea
Oceanitidae	Fregetta Garrodia Nesofregetta Oceanites Pelagodroma
Hydrobatidae	Hydrobates
Procellariidae	Aphrodroma Ardenna †Argyrodyptes Bulweria Calonectris Daption †Eopuffinus Fulmarus Halobaena Macronectes Pachyptila Pagodroma Pelecanoides †Primodroma Procellaria Pseudobulweria Pterodroma †Pterodromoides Puffinus Thalassoica

Taxon identifiers
Pseudobulweria	Wikidata: Q147902 Wikispecies: Pseudobulweria AFD: Pseudobulweria BOLD: 670029 CoL: 6ZDM GBIF: 2481502 iNaturalist: 91427 IRMNG: 1428803 ITIS: 558120 NCBI: 52127 NZOR: ec9b7b50-b8a1-4bbf-bd64-57795de02811 Open Tree of Life: 944659 Paleobiology Database: 370675 WoRMS: 343627

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