Hydrobates melania
Black Storm-Petrel
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2026-08-05: worms_id 343967 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted); itis:174640 deprecated in ITIS -> itis:1255038 (Hydrobates melania)
The black storm petrel is a small seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae. It is 23 cm in length, with a wingspan of 46–51 cm.W CalCOFI holds 468 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022.R
- 468
- observations
- 468
- records
- 468
- sampling events
- 1987–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same
strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses
(dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet
pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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name used: Hydrobates melania Black Storm-Petrel · code
BLSPre-keyed
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:1255038")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:1255038'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon.
Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Hydrobates
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hydrobates pelagicus · source
- Photo · Cato Neimoidia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Black storm petrel” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362501807
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF · eBird
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗