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Pelecanidae

pelicans

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 136991ITIS 174682key itis:174682
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2026-08-05: worms_id 136991 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

The Pelecanidae is a family of pelecaniform birds within the Pelecani that contains three genera: the extinct Eopelecanus and Miopelecanus and the extant Pelecanus.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
Photograph of Pelecanidae
Photo · Andrew Cannizzaro · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174682")

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
Lineage 9 ranks · Animalia to Pelecaniformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗