Pterodroma inexpectata
Mottled Petrel
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2026-08-05: worms_id 225761 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
The mottled petrel or kōrure is a species of seabird and a member of the gadfly petrels. It usually attains 33 to 35 cm (13–14 in) in length with a 74 to 82 cm (29–32 in) wingspan.W CalCOFI holds 12 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 2015.R
- 12
- observations
- 12
- records
- 12
- sampling events
- 1989–2015
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 35 cm
- max length
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same
strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses
(dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet
pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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name used: Pterodroma inexpectata Mottled Petrel · code
MOPE
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174569")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:174569'").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 35 cm max
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.
Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Pterodroma
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
- Silhouette · Anthony Caravaggi · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pterodroma · source
- Photo · M Rutherford · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Mottled petrel” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1314819508
- Length · sealifebase
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF · eBird
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 ↗