Yelkouan shearwater
| Yelkouan shearwater | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Procellariiformes |
| Family: | Procellariidae |
| Genus: | Puffinus |
| Species: | P. yelkouan
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| Binomial name | |
| Puffinus yelkouan (Acerbi, 1827)
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| Synonyms | |
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Procellaria yelkouan Acerbi, 1827 | |
The yelkouan shearwater, Levantine shearwater or Mediterranean shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus).