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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Aechmophorus

WoRMS 366616ITIS 174502key itis:174502
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2026-08-05: worms_id 366616 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Zitan Song · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Aechmophorus occidentalis

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 Aechmophorus
Photo · Kat B · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Aechmophorus is a genus of birds in the grebe family.W CalCOFI holds 93 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2020, across 2 taxa under it.R

93
observations
93
records
1988–2020
years
1
datasets
2
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

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:174502")