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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Oceanites oceanicus

Wilson's Storm-Petrel

WoRMS 137190ITIS 174650key itis:174650
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2026-08-05: worms_id 137190 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Oceanites oceanicus
Wilson's Storm-Petrel19 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · sealifebase

Wilson's Storm-petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, Location: Gulf Stream off of Hatteras, North Carolina, United States
Photo · Patrick Coin (Patrick Coin) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · commons

Wilson's storm petrel, also known as Wilson's petrel, is a small seabird of the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae.W CalCOFI holds 6 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2016.R

6
observations
6
records
6
sampling events
1987–2016
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

  • Seabirds & Marine Mammals 6 obs · 6 events · 1987–2016
    name used: Oceanites oceanicus Wilson's Storm-Petrel · code WISP

How big is it
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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.

Groups

calcofi:seabirds

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:174650%22