Tropical Petrels
Pseudobulweria
Pseudobulweria is a genus of seabirds in the family Procellariidae. They have long been retained with the gadfly petrel genus Pterodroma despite morphological differences. Mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b sequence analysis has confirmed the split out of Pterodroma and places the genus closer to shearwaters. They thus represent either a plesiomorphic lineage still sharing some traits of the ancestral Procellariidae with the gadfly petrels, or convergent evolution of a shearwater to the ecological niche of gadfly petrels.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Tahiti Petrel
speciesPseudobulweria rostrata
Beck's Petrel
speciesPseudobulweria becki
Mascarene Petrel
speciesPseudobulweria aterrima
Fiji Petrel
speciesPseudobulweria macgillivrayi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 91427.