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Species profile—Hydrobates leucorhous (Leach's Storm-Petrel)

Classification

Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Hydrobatidae (northern storm-petrels) → Hydrobates leucorhous (Leach's Storm-Petrel)

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Species details

Kingdom
Animalia (animals)
Class
Aves (birds)
Family
Hydrobatidae (northern storm-petrels)
Scientific name
Hydrobates leucorhous (Vieillot, 1818)
Common name
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Type reference
Vieillot, L.J.P. (1818). Le Petrel-puffin fuligineux, Procellaria leucorhoa, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat. 25: 422.
WildNet taxon ID
36352
Synonym(s)
Oceanodroma leucorhoa
Hydrobates leucorhoa
Alternate name(s)
Leach's storm petrel
Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
Least concern
Conservation significant
No
Endemicity
Native
Pest status
Nil
Species environment
Marine & Terrestrial

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Data source

This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=36352.

This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.

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Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Last updated
8 March 2022