Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Procellariiformes

WoRMS 2686ITIS 174512key itis:174512

2026-08-05: worms_id 2686 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Oceanites oceanicus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Procellariiformes — Photo · JJ Harrison · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families; the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels.W CalCOFI holds 24,359 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 30 taxa under it.R

24,359
observations: 24,359
records: 1987–2022
years: 1
datasets: 28
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 4 taxa

F Procellariidae shearwaters13,566
F Hydrobatidae storm petrels8,613
F Diomedeidae albatrosses2,174
F Oceanitidae6

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174512")

Procellariiformes

Observed in

Under it · 4 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.