Oceanodroma

Band-rumped storm petrel Oceanodroma castro, copyright Dan Irizarry.

Belongs within: Procellariiformes.

Oceanodroma is a genus of storm petrels found primarily in the Northern Hemisphere, suggested by phylogenetic analysis (e.g. Burleigh et al. 2015) to be paraphyletic with regard to the storm petrel Hydrobates pelagicus. As a group, both genera are united by relatively short legs and long and pointed wings with about fourteen secondaries (Cramp & Simmons 1977). Hydrobates pelagicus is smaller than other storm petrels and possesses a broad white bar along the underside of the wing (Cramp & Simmons 1977).

<==Oceanodroma Reichenbach 1853 (see below for synonymy) CC10
    |  i. s.: O. hornbyi JT12 [=Thalassidroma hornbyi CC10, *Bannermania hornbyi CC10]
    |         O. hubbsi Miller 1951 U93
    |         O. kaedingi Anthony 1898 [=Cymochorea leucorhoa kaedingi] CC10
    |         O. macrodactyla JT12
    |         O. markhami JT12
    |         O. matsudairae Kuroda 1922 I92 [=Cymochorea (*Bianchoma) matsudairae CC10]
    |         O. monteiroi Bolton, Smith et al. 2008 BS08
    |--+--O. melania BKB15 [=Procellaria melania CC10, *Loomelania melania CC10]
    |  `--+--O. microsoma BKB15 [=Halocyptena microsoma JT12]
    |     `--O. tethys BKB15 [=Procellaria tethys CC10, *Tethysia tethys CC10]
    `--+--+--O. castro (Harcourt 1851) BKB15, CS77 (see below for synonymy)
       |  `--+--*O. furcata CC10, BKB15 [=Procellaria furcata CC10]
       |     `--Hydrobates Boie 1822 BKB15, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
       |          `--*H. pelagicus (Linnaeus 1758) B94, CS77 (see below for synonymy)
       `--+--O. monorhis (Swinhoe 1867) BKB15, CS77 (see below for synonymy)
          `--+--O. homochroa BKB15
             `--+--O. leucorhoa (Vieillot 1818) BKB15, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
                |    |--O. l. leucorhoa (see below for synonymy) CC10
                |    |--O. l. beali HR96
                |    |--O. l. chapmani Berlepsch 1906 CC10
                |    |--O. l. cheimomnestes Ainley 1980 CC10
                |    `--O. l. socorroensis Townsend 1890 CC10
                `--O. tristrami BKB15 [incl. Cymochorea (*Stonowa) owstoni CC10]

Hydrobates Boie 1822 BKB15, CC10 [=Procellaria Linné 1766 non Linnaeus 1758 B94; incl. Thalassidroma Vigors 1825 B94]

*Hydrobates pelagicus (Linnaeus 1758) B94, CS77 [=*Procellaria pelagica B94; incl. H. pelagicus melitensis (Schembri 1843) CS77]

Oceanodroma Reichenbach 1853 [incl. Bannermania Mathews & Iredale 1915, Bianchoma Mathews in Mathews & Hallstrom 1943, Cymochorea Coues 1864, Loomelania Mathews 1934, Pacificodroma Bianchi 1913, Stonowa Mathews in Mathews & Hallstrom 1943, Tethysia Mathews 1933, Thalobata Mathews in Mathews & Hallstrom 1943; Hydrobatidae, Hydrobatinae] CC10

Oceanodroma castro (Harcourt 1851) BKB15, CS77 [=Thalassidroma castro CC10, Cymochorea (*Thalobata) castro CC10; incl. Procellaria lugubris Bonaparte 1845 (n. d.) BS08]

Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Vieillot 1818) BKB15, CC10 [=Procellaria leucorhoa CC10, *Cymochorea leucorhoa CC10, Oceanodroma leucorrhoa CC10]

Oceanodroma leucorhoa leucorhoa (Vieillot 1818) [incl. Procellaria bullockii Fleming 1828, P. leachii Temminck 1820, Thalassidroma leachii, Cymochorea leucorhoa muriwai Mathews & Hallstrom 1943] CC10

Oceanodroma monorhis (Swinhoe 1867) BKB15, CS77 [=Thalassidroma monorhis CC10, O. leucorhoa monorhis CS77, *Pacificodroma monorhis CC10]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.

[BS08] Bolton, M., A. L. Smith, E. Gómez-Díaz, V. L. Friesen, R. Medeiros, J. Bried, J. L. Roscales & R. W. Furness. 2008. Monteiro's storm-petrel Oceanodroma monteiroi: a new species from the Azores. Ibis 150: 717–727.

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[CS77] Cramp, S., & K. E. L. Simmons (eds) 1977. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palaearctic vol. 1. Ostrich to Ducks. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

[HR96] Heather, B. D., & H. A. Robertson. 1996. The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand. Viking: Auckland.

[I92] Iwahashi, J. (ed.) 1992. Reddo Deeta Animaruzu: a pictorial of Japanese fauna facing extinction. JICC: Tokyo.

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

[U93] Unwin, D. M. 1993. Aves. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 717–737. Chapman & Hall: London.

Last updated: 4 December 2021.