Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Podicipedidae

grebes

WoRMS 136995ITIS 174477key itis:174477

2026-08-05: worms_id 136995 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Podilymbus podiceps

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 Podicipedidae — Photo · Ezequiel Racker · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Grebes are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes. Grebes are widely distributed freshwater birds, with some species also found in marine habitats during migration and winter.W CalCOFI holds 138 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020, across 4 taxa under it.R

138
observations: 138
records: 1987–2020
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 · 2 taxa

G Aechmophorus93
G Podiceps45

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174477")

Podicipedidae

Observed in

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.