A New Diving Pliocene Ardenna Shearwater (Aves: Procellariidae) from New Zealand-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A New Diving Pliocene Ardenna Shearwater (Aves: Procellariidae) from New Zealand

Published:2024-04-06 Issue:2 Volume:4 Page:237-249
ISSN:2673-6500
Container-title:Taxonomy
language:en
Short-container-title:Taxonomy

Author:

Tennyson Alan J. D.¹^ORCID,Salvador Rodrigo B.²^ORCID,Tomotani Barbara M.³,Marx Felix G.¹

Affiliation:

1. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, P.O. Box 467, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

2. The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, Lars Thørings veg 10, 9006 Tromsø, Norway

3. Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, Framstredet 43, 9019 Tromsø, Norway

Abstract

We report a new species of shearwater, Ardenna buchananbrowni sp. nov., from the Pliocene of New Zealand. It is both the smallest and oldest known diving member of the genus, demonstrating that this now abundant form of shearwater has had a long presence in southern oceans. Ardenna buchananbrowni sp. nov. is among the few extinct shearwaters described from the Southern Hemisphere and adds to an increasingly diverse seabird assemblage in the Pliocene of the region.

Funder

Te Papa Collection Development Fund

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6500/4/2/12/pdf

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