Barolo shearwater Barolo shearwater The Barolo shearwater ("Puffinus baroli"), also known as the North Atlantic little shearwater or Macaronesian shearwater, is a small shearwater which breeds in the Azores and Canaries of Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean. "Puffinus" is a New Latin loanword based on the English "puffin" and its variants, such as poffin, pophyn and puffing, that referred to the cured carcass of the fat nestling of the Manx shearwater, a former delicacy. The specific "baroli" refers to Carlo Tencredi Falletti, marquis of Barolo. It was previously considered conspecific with the little shearwater ("Puffinus assimilis") of the Southern Hemisphere. Mitochondrial
Audubon's shearwater homogeneous north-western Indian Ocean range, but not in the ecologically more diverse and by far larger Pacific range of "dichrous". These unresolved problems notwithstanding, this clade – possibly including the preceding one – has been proposed to constitute a separate species, the tropical shearwater or Baillon's shearwater, "Puffinus bailloni". These taxa could not be included in the most recent studies due to lack of material. The case of "gunax" seems fairly straightforward – as certainly as this can possibly be said in the absence of new data, it belongs to the "bailloni" clade either as a distinct subspecies, or, more