Birds of India - The New Synopsis

A complete checklist of bird species and subspecies found in India

Procellariiformes (Tube-nosed Swimmers)

Oceanitidae (Austral Storm-Petrels)

• Oceanites Keyserling & Blasius, 1840 Die Wirbelthiere Europa's. Erstes Buch: Die unterscheidenden Charactere 1, p. xciii, 131, 238 Procellaria wilsonii Bonaparte, 1823; Type by subsequent designation (Gray, 1841, A list of the genera of birds, with their synonyma and with an indication of the typical species of each genus. 2nd. ed., ed. 2, p.99) = Procellaria oceanica Kuhl, 1820
  • 324. Wilson's Storm-Petrel Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl, 1820)
    Original Description: Procellaria oceanica Kuhl, 1820 Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie 1 p.136 pl.10 fig.1
    IUCN: Least Concern. WLPA: Schedule-II.
    • 324a. Oceanites oceanicus exasperatus Mathews, 1912 [HB#14]
      Original Description: Oceanites oceanicus exasperatus Mathews, 1912 The birds of Australia 2 p.11 pl.68
      Taxonomy: May represent a clinal form of the typotypical nominate subspecies.
      Distribution: Northern summer (=southern winter): Off-shore Arabian Sea from Gujarat till Kerala as well as Lakshadweep. Also, sometimes in Bay of Bengal including Andaman Sea.
      Specimens: BNHS
      Notes: Assumed this subspecies on range.
  
  
• Pelagodroma Reichenbach, 1853 Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie lfr.3DieVogel p.IV ?cdP Procellaria marina Latham, 1790; Type by original designation
  • 325. White-faced Storm-Petrel Pelagodroma marina (Latham, 1790)
    Original Description: Procellaria marina Latham, 1790 Index ornithologicus, sive systema ornithologiæ; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. 2 p.826
    IUCN: Least Concern. WLPA: Schedule-II.
    • 325a. Pelagodroma marina dulciae Mathews, 1912
      Original Description: Pelagodroma marina dulciae Mathews, 1912 The birds of Australia 2 p.20,21
      Distribution: Off-shore SW India (historical) in early northern summer.
      Notes: Assumed this subspecies on range as well as a specimen from Sri Lanka (see Praveen et al. 2013, IB 8 (5): 115).
  
  
• Fregetta Bonaparte, 1855 Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 41 p.1113 Thalassidroma leucogaster Gould, 1844; Type by original designation
  • 326. Black-bellied Storm-Petrel Fregetta tropica (Gould, 1844)
    Alternative Names: Dusky-vented Storm Petrel
    IUCN: Least Concern. WLPA: Schedule-II.
    Notes: See Kumar (2025, IB 21 (6): XX), that indicates its probably regular further off-shore during monsoons.
    • 326a. Fregetta tropica tropica (Gould, 1844) [HB#15]
      Original Description: Thalassidroma tropica Gould, 1844 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology (1), 13 p.366
      Distribution: Vagrant. Reported from off-shore of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, and Lakshadweep Is.
      Notes: Assumed this subspecies on range; see Bailey & Bourne (1963, JBNHS 60 (1): 257).