Oceanites

Oceanites
Wilson's storm petrel 'walking' on the water off of Hatteras, North Carolina.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Procellariiformes
Family:	Oceanitidae
Genus:	Oceanites Keyserling & Blasius, 1840
Type species
Procellaria wilsonii [1] 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

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