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Sooty albatross | |
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Light-mantled albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Procellariiformes |
Family: | Diomedeidae |
Genus: | Phoebetria Reichenbach, 1853 |
Type species | |
Diomedea fuliginosa[1] Gmelin, 1789
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Species | |
Phoebetria fusca |
The sooty albatrosses are small albatrosses from the genus Phoebetria. There are two species, the sooty albatross, Phoebetria fusca, and the light-mantled albatross, Phoebetria palpebrata.