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Puffinus

WoRMS 137065ITIS 174543key itis:174543
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2026-08-05: worms_id 137065 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · juan.jeri.vidal · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Puffinus griseus

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 Puffinus
Photo · Spencer McIntyre · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Puffinus is a genus of seabirds in the order Procellariiformes that contains about 20 small to medium-sized shearwaters. Two other shearwater genera are named: Calonectris, which comprises three or four large shearwaters, and Ardenna with another seven species.W CalCOFI holds 1,399 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022.R

1,399
observations
1,399
records
1987–2022
years
1
datasets

Observed in

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

Under it · 1 taxon

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:174543")