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Fregetta

Bretagnolle, Vincent;Flood, Robert L.;Gaba, Sabrina;Shirihai, Hadoram

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

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderProcellariiformes
  5. FamilyHydrobatidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded25,065

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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.

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