Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pelecanus

WoRMS 137052ITIS 174683key itis:174683

2026-08-05: worms_id 137052 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Ferran Sayol · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pelecanus

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 Pelecanus — Photo · Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterized by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing.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 · 2 taxa

sp Pelecanus occidentalis Brown Pelican2,057
sp Pelecanus erythrorhynchos American White Pelican1

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:174683")

Pelecanus

Observed in

Under it · 2 taxa

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/.