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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gaviiformes

WoRMS 148793ITIS 174466key itis:174466
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2026-08-05: worms_id 148793 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gavia stellata

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 Gaviiformes
Photo · Frank Sengpiel · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Gaviiformes is an order of aquatic birds containing the loons or divers and their closest extinct relatives. Modern gaviiformes are found in many parts of North America and northern Eurasia, though prehistoric species were more widespread.W CalCOFI holds 926 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 4 taxa under it.R

926
observations
926
records
1987–2022
years
1
datasets
4
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:174466")