Analyses of phenotypic differentiations among South Georgian Diving Petrel (Pelecanoides georgicus) populations reveal an undescribed and highly endangered species from New Zealand

• Johannes H. Fischer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes H. Fischer, Igor Debski, Colin M. Miskelly, Charles A. Bost, Aymeric Fromant, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jake Tessler, Heiko U. Wittmer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: johannesfischer@live.nl

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3527-1671

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• Igor Debski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes H. Fischer, Igor Debski, Colin M. Miskelly, Charles A. Bost, Aymeric Fromant, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jake Tessler, Heiko U. Wittmer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aquatic Unit, Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand

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• Colin M. Miskelly ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes H. Fischer, Igor Debski, Colin M. Miskelly, Charles A. Bost, Aymeric Fromant, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jake Tessler, Heiko U. Wittmer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

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• Charles A. Bost ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes H. Fischer, Igor Debski, Colin M. Miskelly, Charles A. Bost, Aymeric Fromant, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jake Tessler, Heiko U. Wittmer

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, CNRS-Université de la Rochelle, Villiers en Bois, France

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• Aymeric Fromant ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes H. Fischer, Igor Debski, Colin M. Miskelly, Charles A. Bost, Aymeric Fromant, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jake Tessler, Heiko U. Wittmer

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, CNRS-Université de la Rochelle, Villiers en Bois, France

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• Alan J. D. Tennyson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes H. Fischer, Igor Debski, Colin M. Miskelly, Charles A. Bost, Aymeric Fromant, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jake Tessler, Heiko U. Wittmer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

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• Jake Tessler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes H. Fischer, Igor Debski, Colin M. Miskelly, Charles A. Bost, Aymeric Fromant, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jake Tessler, Heiko U. Wittmer

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

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• Rosalind Cole ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Murikihu District Office, Department of Conservation, Invercargill, New Zealand

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• Johanna H. Hiscock ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Murikihu District Office, Department of Conservation, Invercargill, New Zealand

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• Graeme A. Taylor ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Aquatic Unit, Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand

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• Heiko U. Wittmer

  Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes H. Fischer, Igor Debski, Colin M. Miskelly, Charles A. Bost, Aymeric Fromant, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jake Tessler, Heiko U. Wittmer

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

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