Procellariidae
shearwaters
i
2026-08-05: worms_id 136998 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 5 taxa · Ardenna most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174532")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:174532'").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 (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 5 taxa · Ardenna most observed
- G Ardenna Dark Shearwater7,817
- G Fulmarus2,223
- G Pterodroma2,110
- G Puffinus1,399
- G Procellaria17
Lineage 9 ranks · Animalia to Procellariiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Bennet McComish · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Fulmarus glacialis · source
- Photo · Christopher Stephens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Procellariidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354727834
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗