Fregetta Explained

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

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]

Notes and References

1. Bonaparte . Charles Lucien . Charles Lucien Bonaparte . 1855 . Note sur les oiseaux des îles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius . French . Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences . 41 . 1109–1115 [1113] .
2. Book: Mayr . Ernst . Ernst Mayr . Cottrell . G. William . 1979 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 1 . 2nd . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 107 .
3. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . July 2021 . Petrels, albatrosses . IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 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 . 10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a6 . 0007-1595 . 247385755. free .