| Matsudaira's storm petrel | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Procellariiformes |
| Family: | Hydrobatidae |
| Genus: | Oceanodroma |
| Species: | O. matsudairae |
| Binomial name | |
| Oceanodroma matsudairae Kuroda, 1922 | |
Matsudaira's storm petrel (Oceanodroma matsudairae) is a species of seabird in the family Hydrobatidae.
It breeds solely in the Volcano Islands in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and winters in the Indian Ocean.
Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Japanese ornithologist Yorikatsu Matsudaira.[2]
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2014). "Oceanodroma matsudairae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 223.