Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05
Pelecaniformes
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).
The Pelecaniformes are an order of medium-sized and large waterbirds found worldwide. As traditionally defined, they encompass all birds that have feet with all four toes webbed.W CalCOFI holds 2,058 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 2,058
- observations
- 2,058
- records
- 1987–2022
- 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 · 1 taxon
- F Pelecanidae pelicans2,058
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174670")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:174670'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/itis-174670.json