Pelecanus
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2026-08-05: worms_id 137052 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Pelecanus occidentalis most observed, 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:174683")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:174683'").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 2 taxa · Pelecanus occidentalis most observed
- sp Pelecanus occidentalis Brown Pelican2,057
- sp Pelecanus erythrorhynchos American White Pelican1
Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Pelecanidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Ferran Sayol · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pelecanus · source
- Photo · Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Pelican” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1360170563
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 ↗