Fregetta

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| image = White-bellied Storm-Petrel-Lord Howe Island-26March2013.jpg

| image_caption = White-bellied storm petrel at Lord Howe Island

| taxon = Fregetta

| authority = Bonaparte, 1855

| type_species = Thalasssidroma leucogaster (white-bellied storm petrel)

| type_species_authority = Gould, 1844

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = *Fregetta grallaria

| synonyms =

Cymodroma Ridgway, 1884

Pealea Ridgway, 1886

Fregettornis Mathews, 1912

Fregodroma Mathews, 1937

Fregolla Mathews, 1937

Fregandria Mathews, 1938 nomen novum for Fregolla Mathews, 1937

}}

Fregetta is a seabird genus in the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Fregetta was introduced in 1855 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. He specified the type species as Thalasssidroma leucogaster which is now considered as a subspecies of the white-bellied storm petrel.{{ cite journal | last=Bonaparte | first=Charles Lucien | author-link=Charles Lucien Bonaparte | year=1855 | title=Note sur les oiseaux des îles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius | language=French | journal=Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences | volume=41 | pages=1109–1115 [1113] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13835227 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1979 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=1 | edition=2nd | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=107 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16108747 }}

The genus contains four species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Petrels, albatrosses | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/petrels/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=7 January 2022 }}

White-bellied storm petrel, Fregetta grallaria
Black-bellied storm petrel, Fregetta tropica
New Zealand storm petrel, Fregetta maoriana – formerly placed in Oceanites
New Caledonian storm petrel, Fregetta lineata – revived as a distinct species in 2022{{Cite journal |last1=Bretagnolle |first1=Vincent |last2=Flood |first2=Robert L. |last3=Gaba |first3=Sabrina |last4=Shirihai |first4=Hadoram |date=2022-03-11 |title=Fregetta lineata (Peale, 1848) is a valid extant species endemic to New Caledonia |journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club |volume=142 |issue=1 |pages=111–130 |doi=10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a6 |issn=0007-1595 |s2cid=247385755|doi-access=free }}

References

Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot