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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sulidae

gannets & boobies

WoRMS 136994ITIS 174696key itis:174696
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2026-08-05: worms_id 136994 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Jon Hill · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sula nebouxii

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 Sulidae
Photo · Leo · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and boobies. Collectively called sulids, they are medium-large coastal seabirds that plunge-dive for fish and similar prey.W CalCOFI holds 49 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1997 and 2022, across 4 taxa under it.R

49
observations
49
records
1997–2022
years
1
datasets
4
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 Sula gannets and boobies49

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/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174696")