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Taxon: Family Procellariidae Leach, 1820 - petrels, shearwaters (bird)
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Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Procellariinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1825 Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 135. [implicit]
TypeProcellaria (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Variants

Different rankProcellariinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1825
Incorrect authorshipProcellariidae (Family) Boie, 1826

Synonyms

IncludingPelecanoididae (Family) Gray, 1871

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namestormvogels Ref: C.M. Perrins (ed.), 1991 (1990)
pijlstormvogels Ref: C.M. Perrins (ed.), 1991 (1990)

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namepetrels, shearwaters Ref: E.C. Dickinson (ed.), 2003: 73.
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