Diomedeidae
albatrosses
i
2026-08-05: worms_id 148742 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174513")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:174513'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
- G Phoebastria2,174
Lineage 9 ranks · Animalia to Procellariiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Diomedeidae · source
- Photo · Christopher Stephens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Albatross” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1367213464
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗