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Fregetta is a seabird genus in the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae.

The genus Fregetta was introduced in 1855 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. He specified the type species as Thalasssidroma leucogaster which is now considered as a subspecies of the white-bellied storm petrel.^[1]^[2]

The genus contains four species:^[3]

White-bellied storm petrel, Fregetta grallaria
Black-bellied storm petrel, Fregetta tropica
New Zealand storm petrel, Fregetta maoriana – formerly placed in Oceanites
New Caledonian storm petrel, Fregetta lineata – revived as a distinct species in 2022^[4]

^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1855). "Note sur les oiseaux des îles Marquises, et particulièrement sur le genre nouveau Serresius". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 41: 1109–1115 [1113].
^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 107.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Petrels, albatrosses". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
^ Bretagnolle, Vincent; Flood, Robert L.; Gaba, Sabrina; Shirihai, Hadoram (2022-03-11). "Fregetta lineata (Peale, 1848) is a valid extant species endemic to New Caledonia". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 142 (1): 111–130. doi:10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a6. ISSN 0007-1595. S2CID 247385755.