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Historical bird plate: Common Diving Petrel

Mathews · 1910-1927

Common Diving Petrel

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Plate 94: Pelecanoides Lacepede & Pelecanoides urinatrix

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01Common Diving Petrel
Now treated at subspecies rank

The historical name connects to a presently accepted subspecies within a broader species account. Current services may therefore catalogue it at either rank.

Name recorded with the platePelecanoides urinatrix urinatrixDiving Petrel
Name used todayPelecanoides urinatrix urinatrixCommon Diving Petrel

What connects the names

The historical identification is now placed at subspecies rank within a broader accepted species.

High confidence: The source identification and present taxonomy connect directly through the cited evidence.

The bird today

Follow the accepted taxon into present-day biodiversity records, observations and sound identification.

Publication
The Birds of Australia, Volume 2
Plate
32
Creator
Gregory M. Mathews; plates by J. G. Keulemans, Henrik Grönvold, H. Goodchild, G. E. Lodge and Roland Green
Holding institution
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Taxonomic authority
AviList 2025
Rights
Public domain. The BHL considers that this work is no longer under copyright protection.