Pachyptila

Pachyptila
Slender-billed prion
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Procellariidae
Genus:	Pachyptila Illiger, 1811
Type species
Procellaria forsteri[1] = Procellaria vittata Forster, G, 1777
Species
Pachyptila turtur – fairy prion Pachyptila belcheri – slender-billed prion Pachyptila crassirostris – fulmar prion Pachyptila vittata – broad-billed prion Pachyptila desolata – Antarctic prion Pachyptila salvini – Salvin's prion

Pachyptila is a genus of seabirds in the family Procellariidae and the order Procellariiformes. The members of this genus and the blue petrel form a sub-group called prions. They range throughout the southern hemisphere, often in the much cooler higher latitudes. Three species, the broad-billed prion (Pachyptila vittata), the Antarctic prion (Pachyptila desolata) and the fairy prion (Pachyptila turtur), range into the subtropics.