Species profile
Magenta Petrel
Pterodroma magentae
Quick answer
AEstrelata magentae Giglioli & Salvadori, 1869 MZUT AV 6689; mount; unsexed adult; southern Pacific Ocean, 39 ° 38 ’ S, 125 ° 58 ’ W, 22 July 1867; collected during the Magenta voyage. Remarks. — The holotype of AEstrelata magentae Giglioli & Salvadori, 1869, which species went unobserved for a century following its description (Crockett 1994, Imber et al. 1998). Although the population of P. magentae is slowly recovering, the species is restricted to a single colony of 150 – 200 individuals on the Chatham Islands, east of New Zealand (BirdLife International 2018). Specimens are very rare in museum collections: in addition to the holotype, Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand) holds an adult male and a juvenile (https: // collections. tepapa. govt. nz / topic / 2802) and the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand, a fourth specimen (Pacific Ocean, ante 1910), misidentified until 2008 as Tahiti Petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata (Lawrence et al. 2008).
- Scientific name
- Pterodroma magentae
- Family
- Procellariidae
- Order
- Procellariiformes
- Genus
- Pterodroma
- Conservation status
- Critically Endangered
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