Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pterodroma

WoRMS 137064ITIS 174566key itis:174566

2026-08-05: worms_id 137064 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Anthony Caravaggi · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pterodroma

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 Pterodroma — Photo · Adam J. Searcy · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The gadfly petrels or Pterodroma are a genus of about 35 species of petrels, part of the seabird order Procellariiformes. The gadfly petrels are named for their speedy weaving flight, as if evading gadflies (horseflies).W CalCOFI holds 2,110 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 8 taxa under it.R

2,110
observations: 2,110
records: 1987–2022
years: 1
datasets: 8
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 · 8 taxa

sp Pterodroma cookii Cook's Petrel1,931
sp Pterodroma ultima Murphy's Petrel130
sp Pterodroma longirostris Stejneger's Petrel21
sp Pterodroma inexpectata Mottled Petrel12
sp Pterodroma neglecta Kermadec Petrel7
sp Pterodroma sandwichensis Hawaiian Petrel6
sp Pterodroma solandri Solander's/Providence Petrel2
sp Pterodroma externa Juan Fernandez Petrel1

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:174566")

Pterodroma

Observed in

Under it · 8 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/.