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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Diomedeidae

albatrosses

WoRMS 148742ITIS 174513key itis:174513
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2026-08-05: worms_id 148742 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

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

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 Diomedeidae
Photo · Christopher Stephens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes. They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific.W CalCOFI holds 2,174 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 3 taxa under it.R

2,174
observations
2,174
records
1987–2022
years
1
datasets
3
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:174513")