Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Order Procellariiformes > Family Procellariidae > Genus Puffinus

Puffinus assimilis Gould, 1838

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Puffinus*	Brisson, 1760	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: kleine pijlstormvogel

English: dusky shearwater; little shearwater sources: Harrison, P. (1985). Seabirds: an identification guide. Revised edition. Christopher Helm Publisher. A & C Black: London, UK. ISBN 0-7136-3510-X. 448 pp.;Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.

French: puffin semblable sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: kleiner Sturmtaucher sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: berta minore fosca sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: mažoji audronaša sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: dverglire sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: dverglire sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: dverglire sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: burzyk mały sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: малый буревестник sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: mali viharnik sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: pardela chica sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: küçük yelkovan kuşu sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: aderyn drycin bach

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.