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Subantarctic shearwater

Subantarctic shearwater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Procellariiformes
Family: Procellariidae
Genus: Puffinus
Species: P. elegans
Binomial name
Puffinus elegans
Giglioli & Salvadori, 1869
Synonyms
  • P. assimilis elegans

The subantarctic shearwater (Puffinus elegans), is a small shearwater which breeds in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and some of the subantarctic islands off New Zealand.

The subantarctic shearwater is sometimes considered a subspecies of the little shearwater.



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