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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-06

Hydrobatidae

storm petrels

WoRMS 148794ITIS 174619key itis:174619
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2026-08-06: worms_id 148794 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Oceanites oceanicus

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 Hydrobatidae
Photo · IanLJones · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Northern storm petrels are seabirds in the genus Hydrobates in the family Hydrobatidae, part of the order Procellariiformes. The family was once lumped with the similar austral storm petrels in the combined storm petrels, but have been split, as they are not closely related.W CalCOFI holds 8,613 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 8 taxa under it.R

8,613
observations
8,613
records
1987–2022
years
1
datasets
7
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 · 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:174619")