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 yelkouan (Acerbi, 1827)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Puffinus*	Brisson, 1760	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Procellaria yelkouan*	Acerbi, 1827	objective synonym
*Puffinus puffinus yelkouan*	(Acerbi, 1827)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: lajmëtari i vogël i fortunes sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Bulgarian: Обикновен буревестник sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: Ostmediterrane vale pijlstormvogel sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

English: Mediterranean shearwater; Yelkouan shearwater sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).

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

Greek: Μύχος της Μεσογείου sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

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

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

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

Romanian: pufin; pufinul yelkouan sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

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

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

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

Welsh: aderyn drycin Môr y Canoldir

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