Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Phaethontidae

tropicbirds

WoRMS 136992ITIS 174671key itis:174671

2026-08-05: worms_id 136992 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

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

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 Phaethontidae — Photo · kansasphoto · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Tropicbirds are a family, Phaethontidae, of tropical pelagic seabirds. They are the sole living representatives of the order Phaethontiformes.W CalCOFI holds 197 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R

197
observations: 197
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

G Phaethon197

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:174671")

Phaethontidae

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

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/.