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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Procellariidae

shearwaters

WoRMS 136998ITIS 174532key itis:174532
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2026-08-05: worms_id 136998 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Bennet McComish · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Fulmarus glacialis

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 Procellariidae
Photo · Christopher Stephens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the diving petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes, which also includes the albatrosses and the storm petrels.W CalCOFI holds 13,566 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 18 taxa under it.R

13,566
observations
13,566
records
1987–2022
years
1
datasets
17
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 · 5 taxa

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/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174532")