Matsudaira's storm petrel (''Hydrobates matsudairae'') is a species of
seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same enviro ...
in the family
Hydrobatidae
Northern storm petrels are seabirds in the genus ''Hydrobates'' in the family Hydrobatidae, part of the order Procellariiformes. The family was once lumped with the similar austral storm petrels in the combined storm petrels, but have been split ...
.
It breeds solely in the
Volcano Islands
The or are a group of three Japanese-governed islands in Micronesia. They lie south of the Ogasawara Islands and belong to the municipality of Ogasawara, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The islands are all active volcanoes lying atop ...
in the northwest
Pacific Ocean
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, and winters in the Indian Ocean.
Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Japanese ornithologist
Yorikatsu Matsudaira. It was formerly defined in the genus ''
Oceanodroma
Northern storm petrels are seabirds in the genus ''Hydrobates'' in the family Hydrobatidae, part of the order Procellariiformes. The family was once lumped with the similar austral storm petrels in the combined storm petrels, but have been split ...
'' before that genus was synonymized with ''
Hydrobates''.
References
Matsudaira's storm petrel
Birds of Japan
Matsudaira's storm petrel
Matsudaira's storm petrel
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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