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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-06

Phalacrocoracidae

cormorants

WoRMS 136993ITIS 174713key itis:174713
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2026-08-06: worms_id 136993 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Phalacrocorax fuscicollis

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 Phalacrocoracidae
Photo · Diego González Dopico · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds found worldwide and commonly known as cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed, but in 2021 the International Ornithologists' Union (IOU) adopted a consensus taxonomy of seven genera.W CalCOFI holds 1,453 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 3 taxa under it.R

1,453
observations
1,453
records
1987–2022
years
1
datasets
3
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

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:174713")