Procellaria

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 205240ITIS 174609key itis:174609

2026-08-05: worms_id 205240 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

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

Photo · Mjobling · CC BY 3.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:174609")

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 1 taxon

sp Procellaria parkinsoni Parkinson's Petrel17

Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Procellariidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Alexandre Vong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Procellaria aequinoctialis · source
Photo · Mjobling · CC BY 3.0 · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Procellaria” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354731135

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

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

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