Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Oceanites gracilis galapagoensis
Paíño Grácil, Golondrina de Elliot, Elliot's Storm Petrel, white-vented storm petrel
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Procellariiformes
Family
Hydrobatidae
Genus
Oceanites
Species
gracilis
Subspecies
galapagoensis
Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa
Syn.: Oceanites gracilis (Elliot, 1859)
Taxon origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Common resident on almost all Islands.
- Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
- Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G. Milstead, B., Márquez, C., Zabala, J., Buitrón, P., Llerena, A., et al. (2007) Galapagos vertebrates: endangered status and conservation actions. Galapagos Report 2006–2007. Charles Darwin Foundation, Puerto Ayora, p. 104–110.
- Snodgrass, R.E. Heller, E. (1904) Birds of the Gálapagos Archipelago. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898 - 1899, XVI, birds. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 5: 231-372.
- Harris, M.P. (1975) Additions to the Galápagos avifauna. Condor 77(3): 355.
- IUCN (2015) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 November 2015.
- Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.