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

Fregetta
White-bellied storm petrel at Lord Howe Island
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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
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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1855). "Note sur les oiseaux des îles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 41: 1109–1115 [1113].
  2. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 107.
  3. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Petrels, albatrosses". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  4. ^ Bretagnolle, Vincent; Flood, Robert L.; Gaba, Sabrina; Shirihai, Hadoram (2022-03-11). "Fregetta lineata (Peale, 1848) is a valid extant species endemic to New Caledonia". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 142 (1): 111–130. doi:10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a6. ISSN 0007-1595. S2CID 247385755.