Oceanites

Oceanites
	Wilson's storm petrel 'walking' on the water off of Hatteras, North Carolina.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Oceanitidae
Genus:	Oceanites; Keyserling & Blasius, 1840
Type species
	Procellaria wilsonii; Bonaparte = Procellaria oceanica Kuhl
Species
	O. oceanicus; O. gracilis; O. pincoyae; O. barrosi;

Oceanites is a genus of seabird in the austral storm petrel family. The genus name refers to the mythical Oceanids, the three thousand daughters of Tethys.^[2]

It contains the following species:

Genus *Oceanites* – Keyserling & Blasius, 1840 – four species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Wilson's storm petrel	Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl, 1820)	South Shetland Islands Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Elliot's storm petrel File:Oceanites-gracilis by Roar Johansen.jpg	Oceanites gracilis (Elliot, 1859)	Galápagos Islands, Peru and Chile Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Pincoya storm petrel	Oceanites pincoyae (Harrison et al., 2013)	Chiloé Island (Reloncavi Sound and the Chacao Channel), Chile Map of range	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Andean storm petrel	Oceanites barrosi (Heraldo V. Norambuena, Rodrigo Barros, Álvaro Jaramillo, Fernando Medrano, Chris Gaskin, Tania King, Karen Baird, Cristián E. Hernádez., 2024)	Chile	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

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