Ardenna
Ardenna is a genus of seabirds, in the family Procellariidae, which comprises a group of medium-sized shearwater species. These were for a long time included in Puffinus, but this genus was split based on the results of a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA. The genus had been introduced by Ludwig Reichenbach in 1853, although the name was first used to refer to a seabird by Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603.
Species
The genus contains these seven living species:| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
| A. pacifica | Wedge-tailed shearwater | Northern and Western Australia | |
| A. bulleri | Buller's shearwater | across most of the Pacific Ocean | |
| A. grisea | Sooty shearwater or muttonbird | New Zealand | |
| A. tenuirostris | Short-tailed shearwater or muttonbird | Southern Australia | |
| A. creatopus | Pink-footed shearwater | Pacific Ocean. | |
| A. carneipes | Flesh-footed shearwater | southwest Pacific Ocean includes Lord Howe Island, South Australia and northern New Zealand | |
| A. gravis | Great shearwater | Atlantic |