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