Oceanites

Oceanites
	Wilson's storm petrel 'walking' on the water off of Hatteras, North Carolina.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Oceanitidae
Genus:	Oceanites; Keyserling & Blasius, 1840
Type species
	Procellaria wilsonii; Bonaparte = Procellaria oceanica Kuhl
Species
	O. oceanicus; O. gracilis; O. pincoyae; O. barrosi;

Oceanites is a genus of seabird in the austral storm petrel family. The genus name refers to the mythical Oceanids, the three thousand daughters of Tethys.^[2]

It contains the following species:

Genus *Oceanites* – Keyserling & Blasius, 1840 – four species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Wilson's storm petrel	Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl, 1820)	South Shetland Islands	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Elliot's storm petrel	Oceanites gracilis (Elliot, 1859)	Galápagos Islands, Peru and Chile	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Pincoya storm petrel	Oceanites pincoyae (Harrison et al., 2013)	Chiloé Island (Reloncavi Sound and the Chacao Channel), Chile	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Andean storm petrel	Oceanites barrosi (Heraldo V. Norambuena, Rodrigo Barros, Álvaro Jaramillo, Fernando Medrano, Chris Gaskin, Tania King, Karen Baird, Cristián E. Hernádez., 2024)	Chile	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

^ Peters, JL (1931). Check-list of birds of the world. Vol. 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 68–69.
^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 279. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

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