Yelkouan shearwater

Yelkouan shearwater
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Puffinus
Species:
P. yelkouan
Binomial name
Puffinus yelkouan
(Acerbi, 1827)
Synonyms

Procellaria yelkouan Acerbi, 1827
Puffinus puffinus yelkouan (Acerbi, 1827)
Puffinus yelkouan yelkouan (Acerbi, 1827)

Egg of the yelkouan shearwater

The yelkouan shearwater, Levantine shearwater or Mediterranean shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus).

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Puffinus yelkouan". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22698230A132637221. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22698230A132637221.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.