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Procellaria

WoRMS 205240ITIS 174609key itis:174609
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2026-08-05: worms_id 205240 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Alexandre Vong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Procellaria aequinoctialis

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).

White-chinned Petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) off Kaikoura
Photo · Mjobling · CC BY 3.0 · commons

Procellaria is a genus of Southern Ocean long-winged seabirds related to prions, and the type genus of the order Procellariiformes. The black petrel ranges in the Pacific Ocean, and as far north as Central America.W CalCOFI holds 17 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1997 and 2001.R

17
observations
17
records
1997–2001
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:174609")